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Date:      Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:30:56 +1100 (Australia/NSW)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@cairo.anu.edu.au>
To:        ns@BlueSkyFrog.COM (Nick Slager)
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: KAME IPsec on low-end hardware
Message-ID:  <200111070830.fA78Uu0W029670@cairo.anu.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011107163846.H25762@BlueSkyFrog.COM> from "Nick Slager" at Nov 07, 2001 04:38:46 PM

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In some mail from Nick Slager, sie said:
> 
> Just set up my first IPsec link between two 4.4-REL boxes. They are
> connected thusly:
> 
>   IPsec           Linux         IPsec
>   Box 1 -----  router box ----- Box 2
> 192.168.1.1                  192.168.2.1
> 
> This is all set up on a 100mb ethernet LAN.
> 
> When pinging the box with the IPsec link active, I'm getting
> suboptimal response times:
> 
> box1 ~ % ping box2
> PING box2.internal (192.168.2.1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=63 time=35.338 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=63 time=34.032 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=63 time=33.999 ms
> 
> With IPsec not active, response times are "normal" (~ 0.5ms)

That doesn't sound normal to me.

I've been using IPsec on a OpenBSD/sparc (IPX) box which is
definately not faster than either the DX4/100 or P90 and my
ping times are still in the 3-5 ms range to a NetBSD/Celeron-533.
In the absence of IPsec, ping times are sub-1ms.  These are
on the same LAN (no router between them), however.  That is
using DES-MD5.


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