Re: router performance benchmark

[Chuck Mead <chuck moongroup com>]

On Sat, 5 Sep 1998 vbajaj portal stwing upenn edu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I now have the unenviable task of implementing a VPN for a client
> using Linux routers, with VPN<--> internet
> controlled/filtered/proxied.  All trivial to do, and I've done it
> before, just with slower leased lines or with dedicated hardware
> (e.g. Cisco IP GRE) on faster networks.  
> 
> The trouble is that I can't find any hardware benchmarks, obviously,
> so I thought that one of you might have done this before.  What is the
> sort of latency, process bandwidth etc. can I expect with midrange
> Pentium machines, a VPN across five subnets (with about 5 machines per
> subnet), connected locally by switch?

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