> I think Intel and Myricom are going to be the best-supported 10GbE on > OpenBSD at the moment.
I thought Intel, but I speak out of impressions, not backed by any facts. > The best performance today will be with a processor that packs a lot > of punch into a smaller number of cores. I'm using Xeon E5-1630 v3 > right now. The E5-2xxx series tend to have more cores at lower clock > speeds. They make more sense on a regular server. Also came to this conclusion when I picked E5-2697v2. > There is a lot of ongoing work in this area, OpenBSD doesn't claim to > be the performance leader today. What is the take of OpenBSD developers on this? Are they any plans? Many options seems available, but I have no idea how they could be integrated in OpenBSD. I now clearly nothing of proper software development. - DPDK (now BSD licensed) - NETMAP/FW > Chris Thank you for your insights.