[Openswan Users] IPSEC Low Speed

Hardik A Gohil hardik at willowglen.com.my
Mon Jan 26 02:05:50 EST 2015


On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Neal Murphy <neal.p.murphy at alum.wpi.edu>
wrote:

> On Monday, January 26, 2015 01:26:26 AM Hardik A Gohil wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am working on Openswan IPSEC implementation on Linux-kernel 2.6.35.9.
> >
> > I performed speed test using iperf for IPSEC enabled kernel Image without
> > enabling the ipsec service and speed is only 40 Mbps and 10 Mbps when
> > acting as server and client.
> >
> > Same performed on kernel Image with no IPSEC enabled in kernel i can
> > measure upto 88Mbps.
> >
> > Ethernet supports 100Mbps.
> >
> > why speed is degraded for ipsec enabled kernel/RFS image without running
> > ipsec service?
>
> Tell us about the hardware running the kernel; maybe it cannot compute the
> IPSEC encryption any faster.
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Hello,

CPU: PMC-Sierra  RM5231A™ Microprocessor with 32-Bit System Bus

No Hardware Acceleration

Please read my message speed is degraded just because of enabling ipsec in
kernel Image the speed i measured is without running ipsec service(i,e
ipsec setup start)

hope you got my point




-- 
Regards
Hardik A Gohil
Willowglen Msc Bhd
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