On 29.11.2021. 15:55, Barbaros Bilek wrote: > Hello @misc, > > I’m network administrator at a Hotel. We have nearly ~=1600 users > concurrently. > I’m trying to figure out which hardware covers my pc based OpenBSD firewall. > Disk : 1 TB SSD > RAM : 16 GB > Ethernet : Intel i211AT > But what about CPU. As far as I know CPU frequency is more important at > OpenBSD cause there is netlock() etc. > Right? > > So which CPU is better at the moment? > Intel Core i3-6320 @ 3.90GHz > Intel Core i7-7700 @ 3.60GHz >
Hi, I would go with at least 4 cores (8 cores are better) without HT and with X540-T/X550-T ix(4) interface rather that em(4), even on 1G... that's because openbsd doesn't have multiqueue support for em(4) yet, but for ix(4) it does. if you can wait for em(4) to gain multiqueue support, go with em ...but it seems to me that motivation to have mq em(4) is not that high :) openbsd could be unlocked soon and multiqueue support of network cards is fundamental for that to happen and in that moment you would like to have a reasonable amount of core and proper mq interface
