> Well, it looks like at least part of the capacity answer was in the Linux > FreeS/WAN Compatibility Guide, right above the crypto hardware section at: > <http://www.freeswan.org/freeswan_trees/freeswan-1.91/doc/compat.html#multip ro > cessor>, namely the dual processor option. I've long used dual CPU machines > with NT4 & NT5, all the way back to dual PPro machines. > > On the other hand, the article cited above glosses over a problem with > multiple CPU's: The linux 2.2x kernel does *not* have a multithreaded IP > stack. If you remember about 2½ years ago, NetCraft had a "shootout" between > NT4/IIS and linux 2.2x/apache, on quad Xeon Dell's... And IIS blew apache out > of the water as the load increased. As it turns out after long analysis, the > bottleneck was the IP stack only using one CPU; and the problem wasn't fixed > until the v2.4 kernel was released. > > As I look at the FreeS/WAN documentation with an eye towards a dual CPU > mobo, I notice that it still uses the 2.2x kernel, which means I lose the > symmetric multiprocessing capacity, and end up somewhere between NetWare 4 and > MacOS 9 running on dual CPU boxes. > > Are there any FreeS/WAN implementations using the v2.4x kernel?
Not in the LEAF perview, but if you're willing to do a bit of work (see Jacque Nilo's posts about using an unpatched 2.4 kernel) or forgo automatically backing up root, I'll build you a 2.4 kernel with the IPSec patches applied...maybe even an experimental CD-Rom image. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
