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Re: LVS-Nat vs DR

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Subject: Re: LVS-Nat vs DR
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:17:26 +0900
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 10:51:27PM +1300, Andrew Swaine wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> In the howto it recommends that LVS-NAT is used for small sites.
> 
> Is there a bandwidth limit / number of pages served that you would
> recommend changing from LVS-Nat to DR?
> 
> Any experiences would be appriciated.

All things are relative. LVS-NAT is actually pretty fast.
I have seen it do well over 600Mbit/s. But in theory LVS-DR
is always going to be faster because it does less work.

If you only have 100Mbit/s on your LAN then either will be fine.
If you have gigabit then LVS-NAT will still probably be fine.
Beyond that... I am not sure if anyone has tested that to see
what will happen.

In terms of number of connections, there is a limit
with LVS-NAT that relates to the number of ports.
But in practice you probably won't reach that limit anyway.

-- 
Horms
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