On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 10:18 +0200, Eric Spakman wrote:
> Hello Ronny,
> >
> > No i have not tested that since i can not remove the old hardware before
> > this new box works. but i have tested iperf outside the tunnel (using a
> > dnat rule in the remote shorewall) tru both the old and new hardware.
> >
> > and then the new box performs just as well, and often sligthly better then
> > the old one. also tests on local ethernet shows ~99 mbit thruput thru both
> > old and new box.
> >
> > i only notice the speed reduction when i go thru the openswan tunnel. i
> > think that means it can't be a shorewall or nic issue, but perhaps a
> > openswan issue. are there any difference in the default crypto performance
> > 2.4.18 vs 2.4.32 or the crypto used in freeswan vs
> > openswan ? i thougth both used 3des+md5
> >
> There are no differences in performance that I know of, also openswan is
> based on freeswan and uses the same underlying "core".
> Maybe the old NIC has some sort of hardware crypto support (maybe I'm
> talking rubish here ;)


same nics, same driver in the kernel :)
thanks for all your help anyway, it's greatly apriciated. 

seams it wasn't a easy answer afterall :/

im going to configure a second openswan box and test openswan to
openswan to see if there is a difference, since how it is now it's plain
useless.

Ronny




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