On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 09:58:19AM -0800, nate wrote: > RedShift wrote: > > > Have you got some figures to back that up? Everybody's saying OpenBSD's pf > > performance is superior, yet nobody has posted some proof. > > Not sure myself, keep in mind that there are (at least) two different > ways to measure firewall performance - connections/second and > throughput. There was a url someone posted a few days ago going in depth > into tuning of OpenBSD for max performance and mentioned 930Mbit of > throughput on a single gigE link. > Some months ago there was discussions about 10 gbit performance with Linux. Some guys were pushing over 70 Gbit/sec through a single linux box. Not sure if firewalling was enabled.. most probably not. -- Pasi