Henning Brauer wrote:
* Nick <n...@holland-consulting.net> [2009-09-15 13:52]:
Yep. Most performance-oriented thing I've done with OpenBSD was
firewalling a 45Mbps T3 line. It did tax the machine a little bit,
but the primary firewall was a Celeron 600, about five years old at
the time it was put into service (failover was a PIII-750, which
showed a lot lower load, I think it was more the cache than the MHz).
i have a bgp machine forwarding 800MBit/s of real world generic
internet traffic. can handle at least twice that. enough of a
benchmark?
Henning,
If I may ask here. One thing that would be nice for the records is to
get a little bit more details on your setup doing that if you have no
problem providing it obviously. Specially the PF configuration tie to
this bgp router as well may well be very educating to many.
I always wonder what simple difference from stock install might be there
in the hardware or sysctl to get there, what network card are use now,
but more important is the PF configuration use in some router as well. I
really do not recall have seen one email on the subject. That would be
great to have. Not something to preach by, but something useful and base
line if you want to start with.
I for one would welcome it and would be curious as to what PF
configuration tie with the bgp router are actually in use and proven to
be good with decent speed. Obviously I assume there is a minimum of PF
in use there, but may be not? Am I wrong?
I don't know if many would appreciate this for the records, but I sure
would love it. Should you find a little time to put it on misc@ know you
would have an avid reader for it! (;>
Best,
Daniel
