From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tore Anderson Subject: Best hardware platform for routing/firewalling? Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 12:43:51 +0100 Message-ID: <4982E7F7.6050500@redpill-linpro.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: netfilter-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@vger.kernel.org Hey list, does anyone have an opinion on what's the better-performing/suited hardware platform for routing and stateful firewalling with iptables; AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon? I'm need something that can sustain high pps/bps numbers with as low latency as possible. Anything in particular I should be paying attention to choosing what to order? I know that I'll need MSI-X capable NICs in order to have decent SMP scaling - anything else? Best regards, -- Tore Anderson Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com/