Looking to build a firewall for a fairly busy (25+mb) site. Hardware is Dell PE2850, 2 Xeon 64-bit CPUs, 4GB RAM, 6 em(4) interfaces. Software is primarily pf(4) and relayd(8).
Not so long ago the recommendation was to use the i386 build for a slight perfomance and stability benefit. Is that still the case? What are the advantages and shortcomings of amd64? Thanks in advance.
