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Date:      Tue, 5 Nov 2019 22:55:10 +0100
From:      "Muenz, Michael" <m.muenz@spam-fetish.org>
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 10g IPsec ?
Message-ID:  <9ebdf1d3-03da-6a4c-a9ea-aafee93eccd8@spam-fetish.org>
In-Reply-To: <20191105191514.GG8521@funkthat.com>
References:  <20191104194637.GA71627@home.opsec.eu> <20191105191514.GG8521@funkthat.com>

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Am 05.11.2019 um 20:15 schrieb John-Mark Gurney:
> Kurt Jaeger wrote this message on Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 20:46 +0100:
>> Has anyone experience with operating a highspeed IPsec connection
>> up to 10gigabit/s between 2 FreeBSD hosts ?
>>
>> Is that speed achievable ? How much tuning is necessary ?
> I haven't, but do know some hints.  Make sure that you have a machine
> w/ AESNI, AND make sure you're using AES-GCM or AES-CTR..  Using
> AES-GCM is best as it avoids using a costly auth algorithm, as the
> AESNI instructions provide instructionts to make the GCM (auth) part
> of AES-GCM faster.
>
> AES-GCM can run at over 1GB/sec on a single core, so as long as the
> traffic can be processed by multiple threads (via multiple queues
> for example), it should be doable.
>
These were my short results via OPNsense on 4 year old XEONs.
So its 11.2, mostly untuned and strongswan as IPsec implementation.
If you need more detailed specs just drop me a line.

https://www.routerperformance.net/comparing-opnsense-vpn-performance/


Best,

Michael




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