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Maybe this will be the return of an OpenBSD home router for me. I ran one for years because it was a fun project but when gigabit became available in my area I
by aomix 2y ago
Maybe this will be the return of an OpenBSD home router for me. I ran one for years because it was a fun project but when gigabit became available in my area I learned a low power, passively cooled cpu struggled with gigabit traffic on OpenBSD.
- daneel_w 2y agoThroughput depends also on how large (and how well/poorly phrased) your PF rule-set is. Up until 2021 or so my own OpenBSD home router ran on some 14nm era low-power passively cooled Celeron I picked up in 2015, and I managed to get about 700 Mbit/s through that thing. These days anything just slightly snappier will get you 1 Gbit/s throughput.
- Hikikomori 2y agoWith the largest packet size? Not very fast then.
- yjh0502 2y agoI’ll wait until it gets crash-safe filesystem.
- daneel_w 2y agoFFS can crash quite safely. The chance of lost data is incredibly small, especially with "softdep" out of the way. It just doesn't come back online as fast as a journaled file system will.
- guenthert 2y agoSure, something like ZFS would be nice, but in a router not needed as you'd mount the fs rw only during update, wouldn't you? Logs are either on a separate, RAM based fs (tmpfs) or (preferably) sent to a remote logging host. You might want to have a look at e.g. https://www.mimar.rs/blog/how-to-increase-openbsds-resilience-to-power-outages https://www.mimar.rs/blog/how-to-increase-openbsds-resilienc...