using freebsd for a router

[Michael Vince]

JD Bronson wrote:

> I dont want to start a flame/war here...but was *just* wondering...
>
> I currently use OpenBSD-3.8 for my router (T-1 with many statics) and 
> then use FreeBSD-6.0 for my servers (web/mail/DNS...)
>
> I am debating on just standardizing to all FreeBSD.
>
> It seems the security is quite the same - but I dont know about 
> performance pros/cons.
>
> It seems that the 'pf' that comes with FreeBSD 6.0 is equal to that 
> within OBSD 3.8.
>
> So all things considered - is there any advantage to using FreeBSD for 
> a router or just keeping things the way they are....?
>
> Thanks for any comments or flames (I suppose).
>
> -JD
>
If you want to push a serious amount of traffic though FreeBSD as router 
I recommend you use polling, after doing benchmarks I found polling 
helped push through many magnitudes more data when going past the 
100mbit/sec point.

Mike