Subject: Re: Big Temporary Networks Date: Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 01:11:54PM -0500 Quoting Jimmy Hess (mysidia@gmail.com):
On 9/15/12, Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > Mans Nilsson wrote:
I am not suggesting that. I'm just trying to point out that there might be a bunch of assumptions that aren't as true anymore when a lot of client connections share both source and destination address, and perhaps also destination port. If this happens simultaneously when a large amount of other tcp connections are NATed through the same box, resource starvation will occur.
Assumptions that are already broken in Enterprise networks where 100+ users may share an IP
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