netdev - Re: What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses?

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Message-ID: <CAFLxGvx-6F3OqSBjSCBnm5b+m_NingSsbO2qaP7K7TtJghF5LQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 24 May 2014 16:44:03 +0200
From:	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To:	Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com>
Cc:	Niels Möller <nisse@...thpole.se>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
Subject: Re: What's the right way to use a *large* number of source addresses?

On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@...atatu.com> wrote:
> On 05/23/14 05:38, Niels Möller wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>
>
>>     Main drawback of using NAT is the overhead for connection tracking;
>>     it would be preferable if the only per-connection state needed is the
>>     socket itself.
>>
>
> If stateless nat is sufficient take a look at tc nat.

How to use this?
My tc's manpage does not know anything about nat.

Maybe I'm mistaken but IIRC all non-netfilter nat code has been removed.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard
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