Mike Tancsa wrote: > I was doing some quick OpenVPN tests on a pair of 5501-70s back to > back and OpenVPN using AES-128 on RELENG_6. The best I could do > through the two boxes with > > PC(a)---5501(a)---5501(b)---PC(b) > > where 5501(a) and 5501(b) are connected with xover cable running > OpenVPN back to back was about 11Mb of throughput.
Sounds (ballpark) realistic when running on that CPU and hardware. > FreeBSD does not > support the crypto offload. Has anyone tried something similar with > OpenBSD or NetBSD ? They both have drivers for AES crypto offload. Because OpenVPN runs in userland, you're going to have a lot of load for context switching per packet. In this case hardware crypto probably won't help much (if at all). Cheers, Stef Walter _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
