thank you for your input why 'only' 400mbit? the specs say 2gbit for BCM5862 in a pci-e 4x slot... sounds like quite some overhead writing/ getting packets to/from the card - i would have expected it higher but i do not want to question your tests *hmmm*
Sent from Pat's iPhone On 18.05.2011, at 08:06, Joosep <joos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:40 AM, patrick.oesch...@bluewin.ch < > patrick.oesch...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > >> i am looking for a IPSEC accelerator board for a company firewall to >> terminate multiple IPSEC tunnels (branches) >> >> expected IPSEC traffic: ~500mbit/s (100 tunnels) >> any recommendations for a *pci express 4x* board handling this amount >> of traffic? >> thank you >> /pat >> >> > Hi! > > We are currently using this board: > http://www.silicom-usa.com/downloads/pdf/PESB62.pdf > It's currently running on 4.7 stable amd64. > With 2.6GHz AMD opteron we managed to get around 400Mbps asynchronous > throughput(the result may ofcourse vary depending on packet size and other > factors), wich was twice as much as without it. We used iperf with UDP > protocol for testing. > > All the best, > Joosep
