<p dir="ltr">Well as per first scenario, I was only interpreting mark by his statement below:</p>
<p dir="ltr">"What is interesting is that NAT has the potential to slow<br>
down your performance, as you scale up bandwidth."</p>
<p dir="ltr">As indicated, the first scenario is indeed a factor from the second. The users ultimately affects performance in a NATing world</p>
<p dir="ltr">Cheers!<br>
sent from Google nexus 4<br>
kindly excuse brevity and typos.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Jul 2014 21:45, "Mukom Akong T." <<a href="mailto:mukom.tamon@gmail.com">mukom.tamon@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 12:38 AM, Mark Tinka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu" target="_blank">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>On Sunday, July 20, 2014 10:19:04 PM Mukom Akong T. <span>wrote</span>:<br>
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> This isn't a valid scenario. It's merely a factor that<br>
> <span>feeds</span> into the second scenario.<br>
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</div>Maintaining translation state on a device that cannot scale<br>
<span>to</span> handle that state will crash due to lack of memory.<br>
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NAT'ing the software path will increase CPU utilization,<br>
<span>which</span> will slow down performance.<br>
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These are real problems.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Correct. And these are scenario <span>b</span> related. I read Seun's statement "<span>...</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">NAT <span>affecting</span> performance on bandwidth increase" to mean that bandwidth increase in itself will somehow worsen NAT performance. My response was to the fact that it doesn't directly do so, instead it influences users behavior so that they start doing more 'sophisticated' things what require more ports and thus more entries in translation table which is the scenario you quite correctly describe above.</span></div>
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