RE: [Users] Help: FreeSwan Performance Number

From: Peter Mueller <pmueller(at)sidestep.com>
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 21:01:40 EST

> 1. What are the max number of IPsec sessions supported?

How much $ do you have? :)

This is very dependant on your hardware and what type of cipher you are planning to use. By default Freeswan supports 3DES (relatively slow but safe), but you can use other encryption types such as AES to achieve much faster speeds. I believe I've heard reports of people doing 80mb/sec with < $10k US hardware with AES. I would guess that with a well-designed hardware and a decent amount of money you could scale much higher, especially if you setup a cluster with load-balancers.

> 4. What is the hardware version that were being used? Is the

There's lots of rumors about hardware encryption support but I haven't seen anything. AFAIK this is all still vaporware. (Note that someone somewhere has probably done it. Maybe they'll respond and inform us all?)

P

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