Re: Optimizing CentOS for gigabit firewall

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What solution for gigabit firewall can you suggest? Witch OS and packet filter is capable to atcheave hight performance and gigabit speeds?

>Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Timo Schoeler wrote:
>>>> What about NetBSD? I heard that NetBSD has the best network stack out
>>>> there. Maybe NetBSD with pf is the best choice?
>>> NetBSD is a very nice OS, I personally like it most (out of all BSDs out
>>> there); however, as can be read on
>>>
>>> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/pf.html
>>>
>>> there's the 'usual lag': OpenBSD implements feature X in 4.6, wait some
>>> time to see it implemented elsewhere.
>>>
>>> One of the biggest strengths of OpenBSD is that it's really a completely
>>> rounded piece of work. Keep it that way. pf will perform best on
>>> OpenBSD, with all the nice features it has.
>>
>> Has anyone used Firewall Builder to create a complex set of iptables
>> rules? Or compared performance where it built the same thing for
>> linux/iptables and bsd/pf?
>>
>
>
>Are you joking? That piece of crap just puts everything into one single
>chain. I never EVER use Firewall Builder after I saw the results the
>first time.
>
>For a BRIDGING firewall, there is absolutely NO WAY that Linux/netfilter
>can keep up with OpenBSD/pf. I doubt that Linux/netfilter can even reach
>half the performance of OpenBSD/pf.
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