* Franco Fichtner <slash...@gmail.com> [2014-07-08 10:48]: > On 08 Jul 2014, at 04:55, Henning Brauer <hb-open...@ml.bsws.de> wrote: > > And the possible pf MP gains are drasticly overrated anyway. > I'm not sure. Maybe that's a stance that fits OpenBSD well, but in > networking as a whole that's not applicable. There's a good market > for 10G, 40G not so much but it exists (as in drivers make their way > into BSDs). Hardware vendors get ready for 100G; I've seen one of > those cards and it does reveal a good deal of bottlenecks inside > modern kernels.
sigh. it is obvious you have very little idea on what you're talking about here. this has NOTHING to do with the problem or the question at hand. > So maybe all that needs to change is the perception of pf(4) ports > in other BSDs to be ``very old versions that need to be brought up > to date'', because doing so wouldn't solve the most pressing issues > we are confronted with pf(4) outside of OpenBSD -- the code itself > is stable and the features are well-defined as is. guess the fact that the pf code in OpenBSD is roughly 4 times as fast as elsewhere doesn't matter. after all, it's not about the results but shiny labels, right? pah humbug. -- Henning Brauer, h...@bsws.de, henn...@openbsd.org BS Web Services GmbH, http://bsws.de, Full-Service ISP Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS. Virtual & Dedicated Servers, Root to Fully Managed Henning Brauer Consulting, http://henningbrauer.com/
