* 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_.

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