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Few questions from newbie
Hi,
First of all I'd like to say Hello to everybody. I'm new in OpenBSD so please bear with me. I've used debian so far and I wonder to change system to openbsd because of pf and carp. I Have Dell R900 Server and I've installed vmware esxi 5.5 on it. I'd like to install OpenBSD as pppoe server (accel-pppd) and traffic sharper. But i've few doubts. When I used OpenBSD lastely it was about 10 years ago and this wasn't effective system, but very secured. Some people told me, that OpenBSD still has some imprtant defects, like pf doesn't work with multi procesors machine, it binds to one procesor and uses only it (my machine has 4 Xeons, 16 cores), and that not every good lan cards works like a charm :/ My target is to provide pppoe-server to 5000 users (now about 2k) with traffic conntrol and firewal/masquerade. Can anybody tell me it is true about pf with multicore and lan cards? Does OpenBSD will be best choice for pppoe-server? Nicram |
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This topic has recently been discussed on misc@: http://marc.info/?t=142429878000007&r=1&w=2 ...& in particular, this response points that both networking & pf(4) are still limited to CPU0. If performance is a focus of yours, reading this thread (beginning with the first link above...) will be worthwhile reading. |
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Wellcome NiCrAm
Well, you can also find some informations about PF on the OpenBSD website : http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/perf.html Quote:
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Ok, thanks for answers.
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There seems to be a lot of interest surrounding SMP capabilities lately, which henning@ touched on here. Slide 33, in particular regarding your questions, but overall it looks like a good bit of effort has gone into SMP. In other words, it is on the roadmap, but not there yet.
Personally, I'm patient enough to wait for $feature to be coded carefully and deliberately rather than whipped together and forgotten in order to maintain feature parity with competing vendors.
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