10GE router resource

Thu Mar 27 14:12:27 UTC 2008

Patrick Clochesy wrote:
> Very interesting study I had not seen, and a bummer. That really puts a cramp in my advocation of our CARP+pf load balancers/firewalls/gateways. Than again, what's a PIX box capable of? 
> 
> I also had to switch to OpenBSD as there was a fatal crash with the bridge device in FreeBSD when used with my paticular OpenVPN/CARP/pf combination. 
> 
> AFAIK pf/forwarding only takes place on one core and wouldn't take advantage of the other 3 cores, correct? 
> 
> -Patrick 
> 

http://pf4freebsd.love2party.net/pflock/ is worth a quick read. 7.0 
already supports some SMP networking but when the pflock changes are 
done you'll likely see some pretty serious performance from those devices.

Regards,

	Chris