From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 6:55:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.infowest.com (ns1.infowest.com [204.17.177.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32D037B401 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 06:55:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from Presario (216.190.29.201.obiwan.infowest.net [216.190.29.201]) by ns1.infowest.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0172E210CC for ; Sun, 4 Feb 2001 07:55:14 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <00c301c08eba$78f8b3c0$0200fea9@infowest.com> From: "Lorin Lund" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: How much processing power is needed for a firewall with encyption for a fat pipe? Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 07:55:10 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I were to implement a gateway/firewall with FreeBSD and IPsec, how much bandwidth could I handle with, say a 1GHz processor? I'm interested in getting a feel for how much processing power is needed for VPN gateways for various size pipes. I hope to do some VPN work in my region. (Utah/Nevada) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message