* Aaron Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-26 03:14]: > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Patrick Clochesy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Very interesting study I had not seen, and a bummer. That really puts a > > cramp in my advocation of our CARP+pf load balancers/firewalls/gateways. > > Than again, what's a PIX box capable of? > > I'd rather tweak a whitebox than pay through the nose for a PIX. > > > I also had to switch to OpenBSD as there was a fatal crash with the bridge > > device in FreeBSD when used with my paticular OpenVPN/CARP/pf combination. > > > > AFAIK pf/forwarding only takes place on one core and wouldn't take advantage > > of the other 3 cores, correct? > > Correct. There has been some great speed and efficiency improvements > in pf and other networking parts of OpenBSD; though from anecdotal > evidence, 10GbE is not ready for 'primetime' (for certain definitions > of 'primetime'). > > actually I'll just skip making an ass out of myself and hope henning@ > chimes in, since I believe he reads NANOG as well.
occasionally. as with all other OSes constructed benchmarks would show 10GE to work at wirespeed with reasonable hardware. I would not use it (yet) if I truly need 10 GBit/s forwarding rate, and that goes for any OS. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog
