Apu1 -- it was routing (but no NAT) each mac was in a separate subnet with the APU1 in both on separate ports and set to forward packets. It'd be worth doing a test with pfsense though as well because I think the FreeBSD kernel has better multi core support (or did then at least).
Definitely...
I did some rather informal tests with the original APU board last summer by placing it between my Mac Pro and MacBook Pro's gigabit interfaces. Using iperf and with the APU running OpenBSD (my preferred OS for network boxes), from what I remember I could happily achieve 1gb/s transfer in either...
That'd be an interesting article -- I'd also be worth comparing performance of pfSense with that of OpenVSwitch running on top of Linux as well (for pure switching purposes as well as routing).
Steve
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