I'm running 3.7-RELEASE with all patches on x86 hardware. I've tested the bandwidth on them machine, and can easily handle 200-300Mbps. I/O is decent too (this is an IBM x335 [dmesg below]). What *really* is nearly impossible is running nessus and nmap on this host. Even using the ports, a single nmap scan will take more than 4 hours. The network is 100 full-duplex, and I've even testing setting the bge(4) cards to half-duplex at 100Mbps. Any machine I've ever run nessus/nmap on with OpenBSD as the underlying operating platform has had this problem.
For those of us running your vulnerability scanners on OpenBSD, do you have any tricks to fix these issues? I know they're not the best-coded applications, but I'm stuck running them. Any thoughts are appreciated. I've tried with pf enabled and disabled, no major difference in speed. I have a GENERIC.MP kernel with all the current patches applied. Thanks. - Eric OpenBSD 3.7 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu Sep 1 09:49:35 CDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP cpu0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 3.06 GHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,CNXT-ID real mem = 4294438912 (4193788K) avail mem = 3791622144 (3702756K) using 4278 buffers containing 214822912 bytes (209788K) of memory mainbus0 (root) bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(02) BIOS, date 09/17/03, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfd7d1 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xffff pcibios0: PCI BIOS has 8 Interrupt Routing table entries pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 9 10 11 15 pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:15:0 ("ServerWorks CSB5 SouthBridge" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x1800 0xc9800/0x4000 mainbus0: Intel MP Specification (Version 1.4) (IBM ENSW TURQUIOSESMP) cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: apic clock running at 132 MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 6 (application processor) cpu1: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) cpu1: FPU,CX8,APIC,CNXT-ID mainbus0: bus 0 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 1 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 2 is type PCI mainbus0: bus 3 is type ISA ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 14 pa 0xfec00000, version 11, 16 pins ioapic1 at mainbus0: apid 13 pa 0xfec01000, version 11, 16 pins ioapic2 at mainbus0: apid 12 pa 0xfec02000, version 11, 16 pins pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks CNB20-HE" rev 0x33 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 "ServerWorks CNB20-HE" rev 0x00 pchb2 at pci0 dev 0 function 2 "ServerWorks CNB20-HE" rev 0x00 pci1 at pchb2 bus 1 mpt0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Symbios Logic 53c1030" rev 0x07: apic 13 int 6 (irq 9) mpt0: sending FW Upload request to IOC (size: 36, img size: 67560) mpt0: IM support: 4 scsibus0 at mpt0: 16 targets sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <LSILOGIC, 1030 IM, 1000> SCSI2 0/direct fixed sd0: 140013MB, 140013 cyl, 16 head, 128 sec, 512 bytes/sec, 286746624 sec total mpt0: target 0 Asynchronous at 0MHz width 8bit offset 0 QAS 0 DT 0 IU 0 vga1 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "ATI Rage XL" rev 0x27 wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) pchb3 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "ServerWorks CSB5 SouthBridge" rev 0x93 pci2 at pchb3 bus 3 pciide0 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "ServerWorks CSB5 IDE" rev 0x93: DMA atapiscsi0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <TEAC, CD-224E, 2.9B> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 2 ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 USB" rev 0x05: apic 14 int 11 (irq 11), version 1.0, legacy support ohci0: SMM does not respond, resetting usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0 uhub0: ServerWorks OHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered pcib0 at pci0 dev 15 function 3 "ServerWorks CSB5 PCI" rev 0x00 pchb4 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "ServerWorks CIOBX2" rev 0x05 pchb5 at pci0 dev 17 function 2 "ServerWorks CIOBX2" rev 0x05 pci3 at pchb5 bus 2 bge0 at pci3 dev 1 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5703X" rev 0x02, BCM5703 A2 (0x1002): apic 13 int 8 (irq 3) address 00:0d:60:1c:b5:6a brgphy0 at bge0 phy 1: BCM5703 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 2 bge1 at pci3 dev 2 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5703X" rev 0x02, BCM5703 A2 (0x1002): apic 13 int 9 (irq 5) address 00:0d:60:1c:b5:6b brgphy1 at bge1 phy 1: BCM5703 10/100/1000baseT PHY, rev. 2 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> sysbeep0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pccom0: console fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask 0 netmask 0 ttymask 0 pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled dkcsum: sd0 matched BIOS disk 80 root on sd0a rootdev=0x400 rrootdev=0xd00 rawdev=0xd02