Re: IP masquerade limits?

Paul (PELaufer@CSUPomona.edu)
Fri, 10 Jul 1998 04:25:12 +0000

Larry McVoy wrote:
>
> Does ayone have any experience on the maximum number of hosts that can
> be masqueraded with one machine? Assuming that you don't run out of CPU
[snip]
> --lm

Larry,
IIRC IP Masq only uses the ports from 61,000 to 65,096 by default. Change
PORT_MASQ_BEGIN in linux/include/net/ip_masq.h to something lower if you need more
masq ports. Anythin above 32,000 is suposed to be quite safe, according to the
comments in the header file.

Later,
Paul Laufer

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