Did I just get a message from ChatGPT? Because this comment doesn't quite make sense. I said nothing about ARM, and those links don't lead to quite where I'd expect.
No, just from not native English speaker. You mention high performance 10GbE hardware without being precise about CPU architecture or vendor/model of the firewall. Apparently high power non-consumer grade hardware, but such hardware lacks PC Engines properties. You also mention accelerators and this is what my comments is about: reality of build firewalls.
My comments is about designs that potentially could meet the requirements, but surprisingly those have different problems. How we know those designs? We consult for firewall vendors doing research. We would be glad to be wrong by being pointed to viable competing solution which can reach score close to PC Engines. Performance is not the only factor for small ISP and security-concious privacy-concerned infrastructure builders.
So it is not that trivial to purposefully build firewall these days that can compete with PC Engines low power consumer/SOHO design.
