Hi, > On 2006/02/03 20:34, Josh Tolley wrote: >> All that being said, we 1) didn't have an encryption accelerator >> in the box > > that would tend to make things worse anyway - you'll just increase the > rate of interrupts and that seems to be the main problem. > for a something fast like "aes" it might be true, for 3des this statement ist wrong.
never did stuff with the 45xx but I can remember that for pushing 1mbit/s 3des I needed 133MHz on old 486er CPU and a P1-166MMX could barely handle 2mbit/s. so with the accelerater you can handle T1/E1 easily, without it you are lost. some benchmarks from years ago... bye, siggi.
