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Date:      Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:43:54 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Olivier_Cochard=2DLabb=E9?= <olivier@cochard.me>
To:        Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>
Cc:        "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer
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> I have been very stubborn IPFW user for very long time, but finally gave up
> in favor of PF. Nothing like that ever since. I am also not convinced IPFW
> is any faster than PF.

Hi Daniel,

I know that measuring PPS for a firewall is not enought for comparing
firewall performance (rfc3511 details lot's of the parameters, but on
my small&dirty bench lab with an old server
(one core Intel Pentium4 3.00GHz with a dual NIC 82546GB connected to
the PCI-X Bus) I've got theses differences (value are in Kpps, small
packet size) on FreeBSD 9.1:
- forwarding-only: 405 Kpps
- IPFW enabled: 320 Kpps
- PF enabled: 274 Kpps

IPFW was configured with only one line: add 3000 allow ip from any to any
And PF with one line too: pass

=> On this simple test, IPFW is "faster" than PF regarding the forwarding rate.

But without "ipfwsync" feature, IPFW is useless for our use case...

Regards,

Olivier



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