To expand on Alexander's point, look at the FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/perf.html
If you aren't doing a lot of filtering, just passing traffic over multiple interfaces, more cores might be beneficial. -Eugene On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Alexander Salmin <[email protected]> wrote: > I might start a flame now but the higher freq and less core model is the > "better choice" unless your firewall will do other things than > packetfiltering and routing. > > On 2015-02-18 22:30:31, ML mail wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Stupid question but if you would have to choose between two different > Intel CPUs for an OpenBSD firewall using 4 to 6 Intel NICs with all /24 > networks behind and around 50-60 Mbit/s average traffic would you rather > choose the CPU with higher Frequency and less cores or for a CPU with lower > frequency but more cores? > > > > For example: > > > > - E5-2630Lv3, 20M Cache, 1.80 GHz, 8 cores: > http://ark.intel.com/products/83357/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2630L-v3-20M-Cache-1_80-GHz > > - E5-2637v3, 15M Cache, 3.50 GHz, 4 cores: > > > http://ark.intel.com/products/83358/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5-2637-v3-15M-Cache-3_50-GHz > > > > Or asked differently, which are the importants criteria to look at first > for a CPU intended to be used in an OpenBSD firewall? > > > > Regards > > ML
