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This is dangerous advice. BSD networking stack may have been superior at some point but that hasn’t been the case for many years now. You are very likely to ru
by dsies 6y ago
This is dangerous advice. BSD networking stack may have been superior at some point but that hasn’t been the case for many years now.
You are very likely to run into issues trying to do filtering and/or routing at anything >1Gbps on commodity hardware (ie. e1000 nics).
Pf is pretty but it’s not worth trading stability for.
- swills 6y agoipfw is faster
- kyuudou 6y agoDid Juniper stop using FreeBSD recently? Also, Force10's FTOS has used NetBSD as a base certainly less than "many years now". Force10's L3 switches are at 1GB, 10GB and 40GB speeds IIRC.
- sigjuice 6y agoThe Force10 speeds are most likely not directly due to NetBSD, but from custom or specialized silicon.
- effie 6y agoIsn't 1Gbps the highest throughput of such hardware?
- agapon 6y agoFreeBSD network stack has always remained rather stable. In terms of performance Linux caught up and even overtook at some point, but lately Netflix did a lot of performance improvements for FreeBSD. So, your information could be outdated.