Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 21:31:27 +1000 From: Christopher Smith <csmith@its.uq.edu.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPSec performance Message-ID: <B999892F.2C315%csmith@its.uq.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20020902074849.GA43188@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 2/9/02 5:48 PM, "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 01:26:25PM +1000, Christopher Smith wrote: >> I've been doing some experiments with IPSec between some FreeBSD hosts and >> have been quite disappointed by performance. I've followed the howto at >> Daemon News and experimented with a few different algorithms but I can't >> seem to get more than about 5MB/sec over the wire. Both machines are Dell >> 1650s connected via a crossover cable on their GB ethernet ports. >> Non-encrypted speed is around the 30MB/sec mark. > > Encryption is by definition very CPU-intensive. I'm aware of that. However, I would have thought a pair of 1.13GHz P3s would be capable of shuffling more than 5MB/sec over the wire. -- +- Christopher Smith, Systems Administrator ------------------------------+ | Server & Security Group, Information Technology Services | | The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, 4072 | +- Ph +61 7 3365 4046 | email csmith@its.uq.edu.au | Fax +61 7 3365 4065 -+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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