Re: [CentOS] Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

Timo Schoeler wrote:

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What about NetBSD? I heard that NetBSD has the best network stack out there. Maybe NetBSD with pf is the best choice?

NetBSD is a very nice OS, I personally like it most (out of all BSDs out there); however, as can be read on

http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/pf.html

there's the 'usual lag': OpenBSD implements feature X in 4.6, wait some time to see it implemented elsewhere.

One of the biggest strengths of OpenBSD is that it's really a completely rounded piece of work. Keep it that way. pf will perform best on OpenBSD, with all the nice features it has.

Has anyone used Firewall Builder to create a complex set of iptables rules? Or compared performance where it built the same thing for linux/iptables and bsd/pf?