* Daniel Ouellet <[email protected]> [2009-09-15 16:21]: > Henning Brauer wrote: >> * 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, > > If I may ask here. One thing that would be nice for the records is to > get a little bit more details on your setup doing that if you have no > problem providing it obviously. Specially the PF configuration tie to > this bgp router as well may well be very educating to many.
it doesn't run pf. > I always wonder what simple difference from stock install might be there > in the hardware or sysctl to get there, what network card are use now, > but more important is the PF configuration use in some router as well. I > really do not recall have seen one email on the subject. That would be > great to have. Not something to preach by, but something useful and base > line if you want to start with. it's an off-the-shelf sun x4150 running GENERIC. -- 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
