[strongSwan] IPSEC hardware acceleration

[Jakob Curdes]

Am 09.01.2014 09:49, schrieb Martin Willi:
> Hi,
>
>> I want to enhance IPsec stack performance, I'm evaluating few NIC/PCI
>> IPsec hardware  acceleration cards.
>>
>> Please suggest plugin card compatible with strong swan.
What throughput do you want to achieve? With newer XEON CPU's and an 
operating system supporting the AES-NI instruction set, you can achieve 
over 700 Mbit/sec with current strongswan code.
You will probably need identical boxes on both sides, though.

JC