> There has been some testing using BSDRP, but it is not "a tool to test 
> hardware".

 

I used it as a tool to benchmark my hardware. There are several examples on 
their website of using it for just that purpose.

 

It also a tool to build simple routers. It has very little overhead and runs on 
freebsd, which made it interesting. 

 

It is a tool.

 

 

>You were testing forwarding, by the look of it.   This is not all there is to 
>routing.

 

The testing results I posted were pure packets per second without forwarding. I 
also tested forwarding but did not post the results, and I mentioned that.

 

 

>>However, I will mention one thing: if you try to route 1.488M packets per 
>>second through the 'generic' pfSense, it will crash after a minute or so.

> 

>That's an interesting result.  We've not seen it. 

 

These crashes happened during a forwarding test using pfSense. I disabled 
packet filtering to try to lessen overhead, but it doesn’t seem that pfSense is 
designed to push a great flood of very tiny packets for any length of time, in 
one interface and out another. 

 

And I don’t fault it for that. For normal types of traffic, it’s a very capable 
firewall. It would be interesting to know your results.

 

 

 

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