Can cheap NAT hurt performance?

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I've been experimenting with NAT recently. I want to put several machines
behind the NAT device that host services like Web, File Sharing, etc.. I
just created a Linux/Samba file server. Internally to the NAT, it peforms
faster than my NT file server for a 128MB file. However, if I try to write
that 128MB file to the Linux machine from a machine outside of the NAT, it
takes 2x longer. Is this behavior normal?
 
gorf said:
I've been experimenting with NAT recently. I want to put several machines
behind the NAT device that host services like Web, File Sharing, etc.. I
just created a Linux/Samba file server. Internally to the NAT, it peforms
faster than my NT file server for a 128MB file. However, if I try to write
that 128MB file to the Linux machine from a machine outside of the NAT, it
takes 2x longer. Is this behavior normal?
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Gorf;

A machine outside the parameters of the Samba server can't see the Samba
server ... so I'm confused.

I run a Samba server and it is perfectly adequate. All my machines use a
static non-public IP address scheme. If the Samba server did DHCP I don't
think performance would change. So, what is meant by "outside NAT"?

Doug
 
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