Chipsets and drivers matter a lot in the 1G+ range. I've had pretty good luck with the Intel stuff because they offload a lot in hardware and make open drivers available to the community.
On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Olivier Cochard-Labbé <oliv...@cochard.me>wrote: > Le 26 déc. 2013 22:02, "Nick Cameo" <sym...@gmail.com> a écrit : > > > > Any benchmarks of freebsd vs openbsd vs present day linux kern? > > > Hi, > > Here are my own benchs using smallest packet size (sorry no Linux): > http://dev.bsdrp.net/benchs/BSD.network.performance.TenGig.png > > My conclusion: building a line-rate gigabit router (or a few rules ipfw > firewall) is possible on commodity server without problem with FreeBSD. > Building a 10gigabit router (this mean routing about 14Mpps) will be more > complex in present day. > Note: The packet generator used was the high-perf netmap pkg-gen, allowing > me to generate about 13Mpps on this same hardware (under FreeBSD), but I'm > not aware of forwarding tools that use netmap: There are only packet > generator and capture tools available. > -- Ray Patrick Soucy Network Engineer University of Maine System T: 207-561-3526 F: 207-561-3531 MaineREN, Maine's Research and Education Network www.maineren.net