* Nick <[email protected]> [2009-09-15 13:52]: > Yep. Most performance-oriented thing I've done with OpenBSD was > firewalling a 45Mbps T3 line. It did tax the machine a little bit, > but the primary firewall was a Celeron 600, about five years old at > the time it was put into service (failover was a PIII-750, which > showed a lot lower load, I think it was more the cache than the MHz).
i have a bgp machine forwarding 800MBit/s of real world generic internet traffic. can handle at least twice that. enough of a benchmark? -- 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
