Would it be possible to do some Qos if we wanted to say limit a interface to 8Gbit as long as the hardware supported it (CPU/ram). We are currently looking at asupermicro A2SDi-16C-TP8F as our dev test board.
All this is routed no NAT or firewall. We will try seperate boxes for the 10G firewall or NAT to see what kind of performance hit they take using those features