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

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