Florin Andrei wrote:
I'm building several firewalls that need to be able to sustain 1000 Mbit
throughput. We're using AMD64 processors a lot, so that's the kind of
architecture I'm looking at right now. I will use OpenBSD 4.1 64 bit
version.
The set of rules on the firewalls will be relatively small and simple.
At least some of these firewalls will need to be redundant, connected in
an active/standby configuration. I will need at least 6 interfaces on
each firewall, at least 2 of them capable of gigabit speed.
Well, not a small order for sure, but to sustain 1000 Mbit throughput on
two interface, I would suggest first to find a way to make sure PF will
be able to do this! So, if your business can do this and have that much
bandwidth and needs like that, then I may be wrong and I apologies in
advance if I am, but I would suggest then to help with the request that
just came up on your screen as well not to long ago to make sure your
boxes would do what you want.
Meaning, can't you help with this one for your own benefit?
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118172436205643&w=2
I am sure that if your business really need that and you show this to
your boss, may be they will see the light and help achieve this.
Look to me that you want to do exactly what this request try to fix.
Regards,
Daniel
