On 08/05/11 17:43, System Administrator 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.
Given that people run pf on P III's (me!) and Atoms, I
don't think it will matter from a speed perspective. In the
past I've always used i386, simply because its the most
common arch on the machines I have.
What you have is way overkill for probably anything
short of a massive 10G network.
--STeve Andre'
