[Soekris] net4801 bridging firewalls benchmarks results

[Jeff Quast]

On 10/8/05, Giovanni Faglioni <giovanni.faglioni at gmail.com> wrote:
>       OpenBSD is still the slower one (between 32 and 38Mib/sec, if I recall
>       correctly) and Linux 2.4 goes full speed (93Mib/sec).

I think you would see drastic improvement in bandwidth on obsd by
adding to /etc/sysctl.conf:
net.inet.tcp.recvspace=65536
net.inet.tcp.sendspace=65536

This topic comes up all of the time.
for instance, see:
http://www.monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0403/msg01188.html