* Chris Cappuccio <ch...@nmedia.net> [2014-06-21 20:05]: > Right now all routers and firewalls should > be on SP kernels or you will actually have worse performance.
This is not true any more and hasn't been for some time. It is, however, true that the extra cores buy you little to nothing for the kernel side, i. e. a pure packet forwarding firewall (no proxies) or a static-routing router won't really benefit. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS. Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/