On Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 04:32:02PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:
> yuk. also, how many ports are there? 65536, that's the absolute
> maximum number of /connections/ you can NAT. sounds plenty, but you
> have to keep remember those connections, especialy for UDP. so divide
> that by 2, ~32k connections. which isnt a lot.
65k connections isn't alot, however udp and tcp ports are seperate
namespaces.
kevin
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