Mehma, You can find more info on the performance boost, and how developers achieved it, in this article. You can go through all of it as its really interesting IMHO:
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2007/11/01/whats-new-in-bsd-42.html Hope it helps you feel the need of trying pf _at home_ :) On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:20 AM, mehma sarja <mehmasa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Otto, Henning and Stuart ....to-the-point answers. Thanks guys. I have taken > the post over to FreeBSD list. However, Henning, I am curious why you call > pf on anything but OpenBSD a "starter drug?" Is the performance difference > that huge? pf on FreeBSD 7.2 is version 4.1. > > You have piqued my interest and may convince me to switch to OpenBSD. Keep > the posts coming. > > Yudhvir