That sounds probable.. Freeswan may default to AES256, which would be similar in performance to 3DES (based on my experience with some commercial VPN solutions).
Unfortunately, I don't know the exact syntax.. I've been messing with the KAME IPSec that is in the 2.6 kernel and MacOS X/BSD, rather than Freeswan. But, a google search for Freeswan configs turned up statements like: esp=aes128-sha1,aes128-md5 On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:54:04PM -0700, Peter Mueller wrote: > > I did the test with the converted Bering-Contivity yesterday. > > I ran the > > VPN as AES then changed to 3DES and ran it again. AES was 6% > > slower. Any ideas why this would be the case? > > AES should be faster. I remember seeing a few posts about this. For > example, http://lists.freeswan.org/pipermail/users/2002-February/007771.html > indicates 89mbps with AES as opposed to 44mpbs with 3DES. Alternatively, > the creater of the patch for FreeSWAN indicated 'expect 3 to 2 performance'. > > Are you sure you're not using double the keysize with your setup? There has > to be some explanation. AES _IS_ faster, at least on the 15 or so tunnels I > have created. > > P > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user > SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
