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Lammy on Sept 27, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: OpenBSD PF versus FreeBSD PF

"SMP" might be a more useful search term. You're correct on the timeframe — merged into HEAD in 2012 https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2012-Septembe...

I'm not an OpenBSD user but it sounds like this changed recently in OpenBSD-land as well, because the "Will multiple processors help?" FAQ entry disappeared some time between January and March 2023: https://web.archive.org/web/20230112170731/https://www.openb...

gigatexal on Sept 27, 2023 [–]

I didn’t know this but it makes sense. Either way for most of the use cases (homelabs on residential internet speeds) either FBSD or OpenBSD’s PF will perform just swimmingly.

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