Matthew Schalit wrote: > > Dan Schwartz wrote: > > > > Good evening, folks! > > > > Over the past few days I've received some very helpful guidance about > > assembling LEAF VPN appliances to handle multi-megabit 3DES encryption > > throughput rates; and I really appreciate the guidance given this Mac & NT > > geek (& linux newbie). > > What's the consensus? You can have a 300 MHz PII running at 450 MHz, > and a pci bus running at 33 MHz, on a 100 MHz FSB using PC100 SDRAM. > Um, that's fast. It'll cost you about $100 to put it together and test, > assuming you have most of the part in your closet. I have a suspicion > that more than a few of you out there have broken the GHz barrier :-o > > > However, since LEAF is essentially a small, stripped down (yet robust!) > > router that fits on 1 or 2 floppies, is there another router/encryption > > project out there in *nix land that's more suited for high capacity, i.e. > > something on the order of an Intel NetStructure 31xx VPN gateway > > <http://www.intel.com/network/idc/products/vpn_gateway.htm>? > > You're talking about > > Low end Intel High End Intel > -------------------- ----------------- > 233 MHz Cpu 733 MHz Cpu > 3 Mbps 3DES throughput 95 Mbps 3DES throughput > > That's a big difference. I'm sure you could put together > a LEAF box with a PIII 800 and 512 MB ram, but you're asking > for other companies solutions, and I'll let someone else > answer that. I'd like to think a LEAF box could keep > up until it's compared to some fancy hardware with a modified > PCI bus or multiple PCI buses.
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