From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 10 5:14:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-32.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0266537B422 for ; Thu, 10 May 2001 05:14:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AFACA66C04; Thu, 10 May 2001 05:14:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 05:14:49 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Gavin Kenny Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPSec increases performance ??? Message-ID: <20010510051449.B2516@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010510104459.8966.qmail@web3103.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010510104459.8966.qmail@web3103.mail.yahoo.com>; from gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk on Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:44:59AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 11:44:59AM +0100, Gavin Kenny wrote: > With normal ftp it varies wildly from 1.58sec to > 5.36sec, on average it takes about 2.6 sec. >=20 > Now if I set up an IPSec tunnel between the two > machines and use ftp to transfer the same file the > time if far more stable at about 2.4 sec. >=20 > There are no other users on the system. Why is IPSec > faster? Surely the extra processing required for the > encryption should slow it down. I've read on the net > that usually things take twice as long. I'd say you haven't benchmarked properly. Kris --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6+oY5Wry0BWjoQKURAghUAKDw/DjZtLe0ARRODq7RkcBK8AJq8gCg6tSH /0gQmqyMRW8+qJNUHI5gAgQ= =uCtX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p4qYPpj5QlsIQJ0K-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message