On 7/22/05, Henning Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Regardless of whether you use the walks-on-water SysKonnect cards or > > "crappy" $470 Intel quad-EM cards, OpenBSD on i386 barely approaches > > half that rate, when doing nothing more than routing packets from one > > interface to another (but I'd be happy to be proven wrong on this). > > 100Kpps should be reachable with the right hardware right now. > > there is room for optimization in OpenBSD to reach way higher > forwarding rates. >
Part of the problem here is that people need to know the optimizations and unfortunately it seems like it takes either lots of research and/or a bit of luck to get the best combo. Instead it would be great if there was either a small addition to the faq or a separate faq that gave simple and explicit directions in how to turn an openbsd server into a lean mean routing machine. (Henning: Life with an OpenBSD router?) It would definitely help to lower the barrier of entry and then instead of rehashing this topic you could just point people to that doc (and perhaps throw some real world results in it for good measure). This would help people make the case for openbsd at work to their managers as well. Joe
