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Date:      Mon, 2 Sep 2002 00:48:49 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Christopher Smith <csmith@its.uq.edu.au>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPSec performance
Message-ID:  <20020902074849.GA43188@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <B9991781.2C12D%csmith@its.uq.edu.au>
References:  <B9991781.2C12D%csmith@its.uq.edu.au>

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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.

Kris

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