OpenBSD 6.9 Router Benchmarks.
I've been using OpenBSD for my home router/gateway for years, and have run it on a number of different types of hardware. I recently got Verizon's gigabit service which is advertised at up to 940 Mb/s download and 880 Mb/s upload speeds, so I decided to benchmark some of the routers I have laying around. The contestants are:
- Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite: dual core 500 Mhz Cavium Octeon, Cavium ethernet using cnmac driver
- PC Engines APU4: quad core 1 GHz AMD GX-412TC Jaguar, Intel i211AT ethernet with em driver
- Ubiquiti EdgeRouter 4: quad core 1 GHz Cavium Octeon, Cavium ethernet with cnmac driver
- Supermicro E300-8D: quad core 2.2 GHz Intel Xeon D-1518 (SMT disabled), Intel I210 ethernet with em driver
https://kernelpanic.life/hardware/openbsd-router-benchmarks.html#hardware