My experience has been that intel nics are bad in the 10G space, especially under BSD. I’ve had good luck with Myricom and Chelsio on BSD, though I haven’t used either specifically on PFSense.
> On 2016, Feb 18, at 1:29 PM, Rainer Duffner <rai...@ultra-secure.de> wrote: > > >> Am 18.02.2016 um 19:13 schrieb Walter Parker <walt...@gmail.com>: >> >> There is an optimization coming for pfsense. There is a new user space >> routing daemon. netmap I think, that can reach line rate on 10G NICs (14.88 >> Mpps). There was a BSDCon that talked about a future version of pfsense >> using this system. It uses ipfw, so there a bit a work to adapt it to >> pfsense. > > > > > Also, AFAIK, chelsio NICs are better in the 10G space. > > ESF uses them in some of their appliances (see the shop). > Netflix uses them, too, in their FreeBSD cache-boxes. > > They aren’t really that much more expensive than Intel NICs. > > I have no experience using them myself. > > _______________________________________________ > pfSense mailing list > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold _______________________________________________ pfSense mailing list https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list Support the project with Gold! https://pfsense.org/gold
