From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 25 02:47:12 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 504BC16A424 for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:47:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from vault.mel.jumbuck.com (ppp166-27.static.internode.on.net [150.101.166.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7802943D5D for ; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:47:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@roq.com) Received: from vault.mel.jumbuck.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vault.mel.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B87D8A029; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:47:02 +1100 (EST) Received: from [192.168.46.52] (unknown [192.168.46.250]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by vault.mel.jumbuck.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8170B8A00A; Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:47:02 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <43867B2E.3070501@roq.com> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 13:47:10 +1100 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051110 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JD Bronson References: <6.2.5.6.2.20051124083015.00c080f8@sixcompanies.com> In-Reply-To: <6.2.5.6.2.20051124083015.00c080f8@sixcompanies.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using freebsd for a router X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 02:47:12 -0000 JD Bronson wrote: > I dont want to start a flame/war here...but was *just* wondering... > > I currently use OpenBSD-3.8 for my router (T-1 with many statics) and > then use FreeBSD-6.0 for my servers (web/mail/DNS...) > > I am debating on just standardizing to all FreeBSD. > > It seems the security is quite the same - but I dont know about > performance pros/cons. > > It seems that the 'pf' that comes with FreeBSD 6.0 is equal to that > within OBSD 3.8. > > So all things considered - is there any advantage to using FreeBSD for > a router or just keeping things the way they are....? > > Thanks for any comments or flames (I suppose). > > -JD > If you want to push a serious amount of traffic though FreeBSD as router I recommend you use polling, after doing benchmarks I found polling helped push through many magnitudes more data when going past the 100mbit/sec point. Mike