On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm looking for hardware to replace my current firewalls, and >> my understanding is that Opteron gear is the way to go for pf >> performance. > > Sorry, but my understanding is different. As I see it, any hardware > is fine for running pf. > > We never optimized it for any specific hardware. Instead, it got > optimized in general.
Sorry, perhaps I should have been more clear; I didn't mean to suggest pf was specially optimized for Opterons, at all. I recalled seeing a pf performance comparison of comparable Opteron and Xeon hardware where the Opterons delivered a substantially better forwarding rate; the reviewers attributed this (plausibly, I thought) to the lower memory latency of the Opteron systems. However, I don't seem to be able to find a reference to that report, and if that doesn't match people's practical experience, well, it makes hardware selection easier. Thanks, -- Clayton Wheeler [email protected]
