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OpenBSD: PF queues break the 4 Gbps barrier

147 pointsby defrosttoday at 1:43 PM45 commentsview on HN

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ralferootoday at 2:29 PM

In the days when even cheap consumer hardware ships with 2.5G ports, this number seems weirdly low. Does this mean that basically nobody is currently using OpenBSD in the datacentre or anywhere that might be expecting to handle 10G or higher per port, or is it just filtering that's an issue?

I'm not surprised that the issue exists as even 10 years ago these speeds were uncommon outside of the datacentre, I'm just surprised that nobody has felt a pressing enough need to fix this earlier in the previous few years.

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razighter777today at 7:36 PM

I would love to use openbsd. I really wanna give it a try but the filesystem choices seem kinda meh. Are there any modern filesystems with good nvme and FDE support for openbsd.

hauntertoday at 4:37 PM

My local fiber finally offers 4 Gbps connection but I’m not even sure what to use it for lol. I have 2 Gbps and that's more than enough already.

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rayinertoday at 2:17 PM

Can pf actually shape at speeds above 4 gbps?

gigatexaltoday at 4:09 PM

It’s still single threaded. PF in FreeBSD is multithreaded. For home wan’s I’d be using openBSD. For anything else FreeBSD.

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bell-cottoday at 1:53 PM

"Values up to 999G are supported, more than enough for interfaces today and the future." - Article

"When we set the upper limit of PC-DOS at 640K, we thought nobody would ever need that much memory." - Bill Gates

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chokantoday at 3:49 PM

dsa