On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:00:22AM -0800, Gregory Lebovitz wrote:
> Additionally it will depend on the round trip time across the network
> between the two peers.

Ahh, of course.

> Vendors who are selling network boxes that can do a large number of
> simultaneous IKE negotiations tend to care more about simultaneous IKE SA
> negotiations per second than they do the actual negotiation time of any one
> single negotiation.

Yes, the throughput vs. latency issues.  A user might care about his/her
latency (0-to-IPsec times), but a server vendor (not just a VPN box, BTW --
imagine the IPsec-protected server) might care a lot more about aggregate
P1s/second.

Dan
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