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Re: (ASCEND) NAT and Ascend



>At 05:27 PM 4/24/98 -0500, Neal Rigney wrote:
>
>> I just spoke to support at Ascend about this issue.  Their reply:  A P75
>> is only good for 5-10 users. Heh.  I pay $900 for a TA and it'll only
>> support 5 stations?!?  "Hello, cisco?"

>
>That has got to be a mistake.  Maybe they were thinking of the P25 which
>is only designed for that kind of load.  The P50 and P75 should all
>support perhaps 100 or so connections, assuming the NAT bug is fixed so
>the connections get released again.  :)  The rumor has it that the NAT
>table holds 500 connections, which assuming normally configured web


>From support, 500 is the number.  When the connection locked up, the mapt
held 500 entries.

>browsers ought to be good for about 100 users assuming they all decide to
>open connections at once.  Assuming they don't, then it should be good for
>as many users as you can reasonably put on your one BRI (which I would
>think, would be somewhat less than 100 if they are all using it at once!)

The timeout is too long.  If you're not running 5.1p9, the timeout is
apparently nonexistent.
The network has 62 stations.  Locks up after about 4 hours very consistantly
with p9.
The 220 has 1000 entries, so it should stay up 8 hours.

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