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How you tuning your freebsd router ? Any kernel options , or sysctl :)

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more information might be useful, what is this router doing? how much traffic does it route? is it a firewall? does it qos? – The Unix Janitor Apr 16 '10 at 10:36
i've posted best-practies here serverfault.com/questions/64356/… – SaveTheRbtz Apr 20 '10 at 11:46
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FreeBSD routes pretty darn fast right out of the box. The type of physical components of the router will make a much larger difference in packet forwarding capability than any software tweaks.

That said, I always compile my own kernel, with O2 or Os to add a bit of speed.

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why do that when you could save time and just run pfSense pfsense.org ? – djangofan Apr 16 '10 at 22:42
Personally, my "router" is also a full server. If I wanted to run something like monowall or pfsense, I'd have to setup another box just for routing. But you've got a good point. – Chris S♦ Apr 17 '10 at 1:52
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You might want to read man tune

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man tuning to be correct – SaveTheRbtz Apr 20 '10 at 11:45
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