Dan Schwartz wrote: > > Good evening, folks! > > Over the past few days I've received some very helpful guidance about > assembling LEAF VPN appliances to handle multi-megabit 3DES encryption > throughput rates; and I really appreciate the guidance given this Mac & NT > geek (& linux newbie).
What's the consensus? You can have a 300 MHz PII running at 450 MHz, and a pci bus running at 33 MHz, on a 100 MHz FSB using PC100 SDRAM. Um, that's fast. It'll cost you about $100 to put it together and test, assuming you have most of the part in your closet. I have a suspicion that more than a few of you out there have broken the GHz barrier :-o > However, since LEAF is essentially a small, stripped down (yet robust!) > router that fits on 1 or 2 floppies, is there another router/encryption > project out there in *nix land that's more suited for high capacity, i.e. > something on the order of an Intel NetStructure 31xx VPN gateway > <http://www.intel.com/network/idc/products/vpn_gateway.htm>? You're talking about Low end Intel High End Intel -------------------- ----------------- 233 MHz Cpu 733 MHz Cpu 3 Mbps 3DES throughput 95 Mbps 3DES throughput That's a big difference. I'm sure you could put together a LEAF box with a PIII 800 and 512 MB ram, but you're asking for other companies solutions, and I'll let someone else answer that. I'd like to think a LEAF box could keep up until it's compared to some fancy hardware with a modified PCI bus or multiple PCI buses. Good Luck, Matthew > Thanking you in advance, > Dan Schwartz _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
