> I have set up a Linux Box with NAT/MASQ, and Squid as an Internet server for my > local LAN with one system on a trial basis and I see that the performance has been > great.However I am apprehensive about the way the way traffice and loadbalancing > will be hadled by Linux box as there will be 50 Machines banging in with > requests,hence I have thought of two ways to connect,pls have alook below and pass > your valuable comments. I have a 128 Kbps leased line coming thru a router. > Option1 > 50 Windows Cleints with IP Adressese 192.168.0.1-50 GW 192.168.0.100 > Linux Server Eth0 with Ip Adress 212.72.11.89 GW 212.72.11.201 > Linux server Eth1 with Ip Address 192.168.0.100 GW 192.168.0.100 > > so I will use Ip NAT/MASQ techniques where all requests on Eth1 will be > forwarded to Eth0.
You don't mention any specs on the linux box, so it's difficult to say if that machine will handle the traffic for 50 clients or not.. Linux can certainly do it, if you have a reasonable box with adequate ram this setup should not be a problem. To utilize your extra ip addresses you can assign them as aliases to eth0 and then seperate your NAT/MASQ across several outgoing ip addresses. You would probably want at least 2 ip addresses on the external eth0 interface... (depends on how much traffic you expect to have) (your gateway statement above on eth1 is not correct) -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
