> I was seeing line rate in linux and freebsd and somewhere around 3gbps in OpenBSD.
This is the only reason I don't still run OpenBSD firewalls - because the little appliance I use doesn't have the CPU to keep a gigabit NIC saturated and I have gigabit internet. Now that topton refreshed their offerings with 10th and 11th gen 2.5gbe firewalls [1] I plan to try again. Having said that, I tried drag racing PFsense, Fedora and OpenBSD in virtual machines on a DL360 G9 under vmware and OpenBSD wasn't able to keep up there either.
This is the only reason I don't still run OpenBSD firewalls - because the little appliance I use doesn't have the CPU to keep a gigabit NIC saturated and I have gigabit internet. Now that topton refreshed their offerings with 10th and 11th gen 2.5gbe firewalls [1] I plan to try again. Having said that, I tried drag racing PFsense, Fedora and OpenBSD in virtual machines on a DL360 G9 under vmware and OpenBSD wasn't able to keep up there either.
[1] https://www.servethehome.com/inexpensive-4x-2-5gbe-fanless-r...