* sk(4)-based NICs have the best performance
* one dedicated data-bus per NIC (I think a PCI-E x8/x16 will be enough
in my environment)
* OpenBSD 4.2 PF's (it seems the performance has been improved until
50%!!! in relation to previous releases)
Ok. I understand that my search in previous list posts has been right,
so the choosed hardware will be enough for my purposes.
more like 120% faster actually.
Cool!
A lot of thanks for your great work ;)
¿Can the hard-disk performance to mean a bootle-neck in the PF-based FW
box? I understand the major part of PF operations are made in RAM memory,
but maybe I'm not right.
memory speed is a factor.
hdd speed not, unless you want to log a _lot_.
So.. I'll try to get an DDR2 RAM at 600/800Mhz for the FW box.
¿Is it important also the error-control (AKA ECC memory error control
technology)?
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Thanks
Jordi Espasa Clofent
