On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:24 +0200, Marc Balmer wrote: > Tang Tse wrote: > > > Just one question regarding VPNs OpenBSD and HW, is there any recomendation > > for hardware? i mean, i want to setup a VPN between 2 offices and i need > > some reasonable speed.. with a computer with some recent hardware do i need > > any vpn card to accelerate encryptation/decryptation?
Marc/Tang/et al.: I'm demo'ing some 1U P4-class network appliance hardware that will probably fit your needs well. See URLs below. I'm actually planning on testing the Soekris hifn(4) 1411 in it today. I'm having trouble with the crypto accelerator framework. ~BAS http://code.google.com/p/bsd-appliance/wiki/HardwareVendorsAxiomtekNA820 http://code.google.com/p/bsd-appliance/wiki/HardwareVendorsNexcomNSA1085 > What is "reasonable speed" for you? You can create VPNs on small device > such as the net4801 or on really big servers. On slower machines (i.e. > 4801) a VPN card accelerates generally, on fast machines the overhead of > copying the data to/from the card is higher than the gain.
