On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 5:10 AM, bluesun08 <nans_na...@yahoo.de> wrote: > beside OpenBSD 5.8 i installed FreeBSD 10.3 on my router-pc. For routing i > use pf. > I noticed that the routing/NAT-performance is in FreeBSD noticeable higher > than in OpenBSD. I think that is due to the SMP-support of pf in FreeBSD. > > Is there also a SMP support (intended) in OpenBSD?
Several developers are actively working on the various parts of making the entire network stack capable of taking advantage of multiple CPUs. OpenBSD 5.9 has several improvements in this area (c.f. http://www.openbsd.org/59.html), but AFAIR packet processing in PF is still single-threaded. Philip Guenther
