Haitham, By tunnel capacity I mean the number of simultaneous tunnels that can be supported on a given platform. And connection rate refers to the ability for the platform to connect/disconnect Phase 1 connections per second. So the metrics would be Total Tunnels for tunnel capacity, and connections per second for connection rate.
Connection rate is a metric for IKE, while tunnel capacity is not necessarily so. This is because we can create tunnels without using IKE (manual). I am using Smartbits with TeraVPN for measuring tunnel capacity. I have figured out how to measure connection rate with help from VPN vendors. They say that the quoted connection rate is a metric of DH and RSA computation performance. Specifically, 2*DH (generation, agreement) and 2*RSA (sign, verify) operations. I found a utility called crypto++ to measure the time it took for each of the operations to get a connection rate. I get pretty low number compared to what can be done with hardware accelerators. Regards --- Haitham Genedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Kun > Can i ask you some questions please > What are the physical meaninigs of both tunnel > capacity and connection rate > and what are their units? > Are these metrics are dedicated to IKE? > How could you measure the tunnel capacity? > > Thank you > > BR > Haitham Genedy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kun Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:00 PM > Subject: [Users] Measuring VPN Performance > > > > I have the task of measuring VPN performance for a > set > > of VPN gateways. The main metrics I'm interested > in > > are throughput, tunnel capacity, and connection > rate. > > Throughput and capacity are easy to measure with > the > > tools I'm using already (Smartbits). Any idea on > how > > to measure connection rate? For various VPN > hardware, > > I'm seeing reported numbers of eg. 1000 IKE Phase > 1 > > Connections per second. How are they getting these > > numbers? Does anyone know of any tools that can > help > > me with this? > > > > Thanks in advance > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.freeswan.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ FreeS/WAN Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mj2.freeswan.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
