Juan Miscaro <jmiscaro@gmail.com> writes:

quoted text
> someone told me that pf is "garbage" because it is not multithreaded?
> What truth is there to this?  Under what kind of load would an OpenBSD
> firewall's performance suffer due to it being non-multithreaded?

I would think that would be a fair question to ask the person who told
you PF is garbage because it is multithreaded: 

    "Under what circumstances would threading or lack thereof have
     have identifiable impact on performance?"

If they can't come up with a coherent answer to that question, this is
just yet another iteration of the "OpenBSD is {crap,insecure,written
and used only by dickheads} because it does not have $my_favorite_toy"
nonsense.

- P
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