On 1/5/2010 7:47 PM, Keith Stokes wrote: > I have all of the above... my home router is a Sokris box running > embedded PfSense. I haven't updated in way too long and it just > runs. I have an IPSEC VPN tunnel that's up full-time to a PIX and > it's rock-solid. I also use PPTP VPN for myself to get in from the > outside world. > > For this particular project we have a backup site with between > 100-1000MB bandwidth, depending upon who's looking. Drop a baby PIX > on it and look up the specs: throughput is around 60 Mbs but drop an > 3DES VPN on the box and it drops to 3 Mbs. > > We built up a few boxes with more horsepower and are running about > 300-400 Mbs. Question is how much do we suffer with an IPSEC VPN > since we don't have any hardware acceleration. Not yet deployed so I > was wondering if anyone else had any experience. >
The pfSense site has a hardware sizing page: http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=52&Itemid=49 _______________________________________________ General mailing list General@brlug.net http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
