On 2011-08-05, System Administrator <ad...@bitwise.net> wrote: > Looking to build a firewall for a fairly busy (25+mb) site. Hardware is > Dell PE2850, 2 Xeon 64-bit CPUs, 4GB RAM, 6 em(4) interfaces. Software > is primarily pf(4) and relayd(8). > > Not so long ago the recommendation was to use the i386 build for a > slight perfomance and stability benefit. Is that still the case? What > are the advantages and shortcomings of amd64? > > Thanks in advance. > >
25Mb/s isn't much for the hardware you have. If you're really bothered then benchmark/test it *in your setup* but either will probably work fine.
