[geeks] VPN/Tunneling

Phil Brutsche phil at tux.obix.com
Mon Jun 26 20:37:21 CDT 2006


Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> The Cisco is a MIPS R4600 with virtually no load currently.  That should 
> have enough horsepower to handle IPsec, no?

A Cisco 1601 will handle IPsec too, but that doesn't mean much, does it ;)

It all comes down to how much traffic you're talking about - 1 T1? 2? 3?
More?

I know for a fact that a 3620 will max out it's CPU doing 3DES @
1.5Mbit, and your VIP is quite a bit faster.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com



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