* Jordi Espasa Clofent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-11-15 19:01]: > Yes Karl, you've the reason. > > I've searched in the archives of the present list and I've found a lot of > useful info about the initial question. > > At present moment I consider the next tips: > > * sk(4)-based NICs have the best performance > * one dedicated data-bus per NIC (I think a PCI-E x8/x16 will be enough > in my environment) > * OpenBSD 4.2 PF's (it seems the performance has been improved until > 50%!!! in relation to previous releases)
more like 120% faster actually. > So, now I've one additional question > > ¿Can the hard-disk performance to mean a bootle-neck in the PF-based FW > box? I understand the major part of PF operations are made in RAM memory, > but maybe I'm not right. memory speed is a factor. hdd speed not, unless you want to log a _lot_. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam