Hi all, On 2013-11-06 07:53, Thinker Rix wrote:
as I am planning to buy new hardware for pfSense, I was wondering if it is worthy to buy a CPU that supports "AES new instructions", i.e. hardware-support for AES encyption.
As I learned in this thread (big thanks to everybody participating), AES-NI is adding no value to pfSense currently, at all. So currently the only solution is to throw GHz at the problem.
Searching myself through the web to learn what CPU speed I would need to achieve my desired 450 MBit/s VPN (or come at least somewhat close to this theoretical max), I found this: http://forums.freenas.org/threads/encryption-performance-benchmarks.12157/ I copied those measurements found there into a spreadsheet so to analyze those values. If anybody is interested in this spreadsheet (.ods), I can send it to him via private mail (I guess binaries are not allowed in the mailing list). Just drop me a message.
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