Stuart Henderson wrote:
--On 13 October 2005 17:50 -0400, Andrew Atrens wrote:
>> Cpu is a Geode1100 - doing 10Mb/s IPsec has it maxed out :)
If you want a low-ish power cpu for running crypto, the newer c3/eden are better.
I, too, was looking for a low power, low cost platform for doing IPSec VPN at fairly high speeds. I'm not sure the hardware acceleration on the VIA boards (called ACE, padlock, etc.) is supported for IPSec [1,2]. I got these results:
Pair of EPIA PD10000 with RNG and AES [3]: AES SHA: 24 Mbps BLF MD5: 34 Mbps Add Soekris VPN 1401s to PD10000s: AES SHA: 50 Mbps Same tests on Opteron 248: AES SHA: 80 Mbps (limited by testing on 10/100 LAN) Hope this helps, Mike [1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112319509403282&w=2 [2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=112275803416870&w=2 [3] Check carefully, many of these boards only support RNG
