On 2009-05-19, Iqigo Ortiz de Urbina <[email protected]> wrote: > Mehma, > > You can find more info on the performance boost, and how developers > achieved it, in this article. You can go through all of it as its > really interesting IMHO: > > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/11/01/whats-new-in-bsd-42.html > > Hope it helps you feel the need of trying pf _at home_ :)
That is a good start, but there have been other changes since. Not only pf, but also pfsync, nic drivers, and more. -current has some nice extras (added after 4.5) for ruleset sanity too. For example, "match" rules, which are absolutely great when combined with tags.
