[c-nsp] Cisco 851 3DES Performance

Jason LeBlanc jml at packetpimp.org
Wed Sep 12 15:49:53 EDT 2007


Actually that shows the 850 as 5.12mb/s with 64 byte packets, not 
ipsec.  I know it offloads, but I don't know how much it really can do.  
They show the 1841 as 38.4mb/s so that might be the safe way to go since 
I already have one.

Jason Gurtz wrote:
>> I can't seem to find anything real world as to how much 3des
>> throughput these can do
>>     
>
> <http://www.cisco.com/web/partners/downloads/765/tools/quickreference/vpn_
> performance_eng.pdf>
> shows 8Mbps.  The 870 series does 30Mbps, is similar to 850 series and
> would be much cheaper than a jump to the 18xx
>
> ~JasonG
>
>   



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