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Netmap-fwd on an atom is faster than your edge router. And yes'm pfsense is getting some netmap/dpdk love. I am the owner of Netgate (company behind pfsense)

by gonzo 10y ago

Netmap-fwd on an atom is faster than your edge router. And yes'm pfsense is getting some netmap/dpdk love. I am the owner of Netgate (company behind pfsense) And your figures ar full of shit. I do 1gbps on a 2.4GHz Atom

snuxoll 10y ago
To be fair, this was running on ESXi, so there was a performance penalty to be had there. Got really annoyed when I switched to XenServer and I had to disable all hardware offloading (because XenServer is stupid and FreeBSD doesn't like stupid virtio drivers) and it would regularly peg a core at 100% when maxing out the connection, which was ultimately why I switched to a cheap hardware solution (still eyeing the cheap ~$300 pfSense appliance, because EdgeOS lacks a TON of features I used regularly). Edit: Netmap would be lovely.