Now, I know this question gets asked a lot by newbs but I have a commercial reason for asking. Just how many connections can a high spec PC with OBSD and pf handle from a filtering perspective?
The company I work for is currently working on an online game that will potentially have +100,000 concurrent users. We are looking at different firewalls to help on the security side of things. A rather complex cluster of different machines will manage these connections but, I am wondering if OBSD would be able to sit in front of this cluster and act as a border firewall. The ruleset itself would be very simple (basically it would block everything except for a small number of known UDP ports then "keep state"). Would a single machine be able to handle that type of load? What sort of CPU+RAM+NIC would be required? Alternatively, if a single machine wouldn't cut the mustard, could an array of firewall be setup? Thanks! Andrew Find local movie times and trailers on Yahoo! Movies. http://au.movies.yahoo.com
