> They all did 60+ MB/s, meaning I got at least 60% out of the gig links, > without resorting to jumbo frames, creative recv/sendspace sysctls or > anything, and also I did generate and sink the traffic on the end nodes, > so that also "adds" to the load for them. > > Given that they costed something like $1000-1500 or so when we bought > them, I'd say chances are high you can make more vpns than most of your > clients will be able to generate traffic for, if you just buy > whatever-doesnt-suck today and have decent gig cards.
OK I have now done some testing myself between two Core2Quad 2.8Ghz machines with Intel em cards. I can't get above ~210Mbps with them - would using Xeon processors likely make much difference? Anybody had any success in using any hardware acceleration cards eg Broadcom based ones?
