Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:42 pm
Good question about 10-Gig NAT
I have a dozen-plus networks ( wireless and fiber ).
I offer ( at an additional charge Live IP address -- no NAT )
The bulk of my customers are connected to my networks using CGN-NAT on the customer WAN networks. ( Internally , each customer network has their own NAT -- so it's a double NAT ).
Below is an example of how my networks are configured - in reverse - from a customer computer through the networks and out to the Internet.
- Customer PC/workstation ( 192.168.56.x/24 gateway to their Mikrotik NAT router LAN interface )
- Customer Mikrotik WAN is using CGN IP address ( example 100.64.a.b/21 ) which gateways to my NOC Mikrotik distribution router.
- My NOC CHR distribution router combines all remote customer 802.1q trunk networks into a single WAN uplink to my bandwidth manager ( Sonar and Mikrotik CHR )
- My Sonar/Mikrotik CHR router then passes the ( now bandwidth managed ) networks to my CGN-NAT router ( PfSense )
- My CGN-NAT router ( PfSense ) then performs outbound-NAT. ( Example - each /21 CGN network is NATted to 5-IP addresses per each CGN network ). This PfSense CGN-NAT router is a very busy server and during peak times it is CGN-NATting with a throughput of almost sustaining 3+-Gig ( I expect this to be 6-Gig sustained later this year ).
*** I have considered replacing my PfSense CGN Outbound NAT router with a Mikrotik CHR.
So my question is , how well can a CHR outbound-NAT 15 different CGN networks and sustain 3-Gig to 8-Gig throughput ?
Note: Each if my 15+ CGN network has hundreds customer CGN devices connected ( the WAN on customer NAT routers ).
Note: My PfSense outbound-NAT router is processing up to half-a-million established connections and performing outbound CGN NAT at the same time.
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TomjNorthIdaho on Wed Jan 27, 2021 6:53 pm, edited 3 times in total.