[c-nsp] Handling a video stream thru IPSEC tunnel?

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Mon, 16 Oct 2006, Ed Ravin wrote:

> One of my customers needs to run a video stream through an IPSEC tunnel
> at a remote site.  The consumer-grade VPN/firewall/broadband router box
> he's using now doesn't seem to be able to handle it.
>
> Any suggestions?  Would a Cisco 1700 or 1800 be able to do the job?

It all depends on the type and bitrate of the video stream?  Pulling a 
128k MPEG4 stream is a lot different than pulling a 6 Mb/s MPEG2 stream 
in terms of packets per second and so forth.  Each type requires different 
ports to be opened.  Depending on the capabilities of whatever is sending 
the video stream, you may need to ratchet down the payload size of the 
video packets to keep MTU issues resulting from wrapping them in IPSEC 
down to a dull roar.

When you say the box the customer has now can't handle it, how is that 
being quantified?

jms