Hmmm mine experiences with 4000 using IPSEC with DES was very bad. (I meant not the speed... it's obvious that CPU in 4000 is
powerless for any crypto/compress algorithms.)
I had real problems with IKE phase 1 using and or testing with lot of IOSes (pre-shared enviroment) against other IOS box and
Checkpoint....
All those strange problems vanished after moving to 4500/4700 series ;))
IPSEC performance using software engine (CPU performance):
1000 - up to 64Kbit
1600 - up to 128Kbit
1700 - up to 512Kbit
2500 - up to 160Kbit
2600 - up to 500Kbit
3640 - up to 2Mbit
3660 - up to 5Mbit
4000 - up to 160Kbit
4500 - up to 2Mbit
4700 - up to 4Mbit
7206 NPE 200 - up to 5Mbit
7505 RSP4 - up to 6Mbit
by offloading CPU with encryption hardware module, throughput might rise up ;)
1700 - up to 1.5Mbit
2600 - up to 6Mbit
2650 - up to 14Mbit
3640 - up to 12Mbit
3660 - up to 24Mbit
7206 VXR ISA - up to 90Mbit
PIX - up to 100Mbit
VPN3003 up to 80Mbit
VPN5008 up to 760Mbit
greetz
alex..
any other experiences with crypto speed are welcome.... Yo, Cisco staff, awaiting responses..
-----Original Message-----
From: Blaz Zupan [mailto:blaz@inlimbo.org]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 6:25 PM
To: cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: [nsp] C4000/4500/4700 IPSec performance
Is anybody here brave enough to be running IPsec on a 4500/4700 or even a
4000? What kind of performance can we expect from this, especially the 4000?
We have a potential customer who has a pair of "4000" routers (have yet to
verify if it's a 4700, 4500 or even a 4000) who'd like to have an IPSec VPN at
about 512 Kbps. My guess is "no go", but before replacing those boxes, I might
as well verify here. I tried looking for some 3DES performance figures for
those boxes on www.cisco.com but did not find anything obvious. Anybody have a
pointer handy?
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