Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>  wrote:
 > >Another machine I have runs somewhat greater load but has less interfaces. It's
 > >a NAT machine for a rather busy webserver:
 > >
 > >PII/450 with an obscene amount of ram for the application (384MB):
 > >
 > >saabing# ipnat -l | wc -l
 > >    7609 
 > >saabing# w
 > > 9:23AM  up 116 days, 23:33, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.09, 0.08
 > >
 > >saabing# netstat -in | grep Link
 > >fxp0  1500  <Link>        00:90:27:2f:3c:b4 366968253     0 269630345     0 12605279
 > 
 > >fxp1  1500  <Link>        00:90:27:2f:42:0c 274335323     0 366299814     0 11598504
 > 
 > Thanks Herb. Lessee, 24 hrs/day, 3600 sec/hr, that's about 27 pkts/sec
 > on fxp0 and 36 pkts/sec on fxp1, for a mean rate (guessing 1kbyte packets)
 > around 300 kbit/sec. My target is 20-30x that...
 > 
 > Or did your interface counters wrap?

no, probably not... It's a website that eats most of a 10mbit colo ethernet
connection... I guess I was illustrating the number of NAT translations...

like I said, they may not be wholly impressive, but I think they're fairly 
cool...  Especially since the thing has been up solid since last February
modulo an intentional reboot by myself.