On Tue, Jul 21, 2009, Petersen, Mark wrote: > FreeBSD provides support for 802.11q, bgpd, ospfd, pf(firewall) and > ALTQ(QOS) but since I haven't tested it I have no idea what kind of real > world performance you can get with all these features in use. > > This is one group trying to pony up at least with support of many major > vendors.
The main current funding source for work being committed back to FreeBSD's 10GE performance has a very big focus on server performance, not forwarding performance. Hence the flow cache, which benefits TCP stream performance. Adrian
