That depends on what type and distribution of traffic is being firewalled, I've replaced Pix 535s in the Past with PF on FreeBSD with much obvious performance improvements all round.
However no software firewall I know of will handle 10gigE @ at high rate small packet level. _______________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Thompson [[email protected]] Sent: 20 September 2011 05:02 To: pfSense support list Subject: [pfSense] 10GbE performance? Is it currently both possible and reasonable to use pfSense in place of a 10-gig firewall (ASA, if you're wondering)? What kind of hardware would I need to be looking at to achieve wire-speed forwarding? -Adam Thompson [email protected] _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
