[bleomycin]

Does anyone know how the virtio network performance is on this release when virtualized under qemu/kvm? I know that pfsense is moving to 10.2 soon and i've been unable to use it virtualized due to its atrocious virtio net performance.

While the linux based firewall alternatives are incredibly fast they just don't have anywhere near the ease of use/feature set of pfsense!

[napkindrawing]

I had that same problem when I was proofing out FreeBSD to replace Linux at $work but found an errata that fixed everything by disabling hardware checksum offloading:

    ifconfig xn0 -tso4