Subject: Re: IPSEC in GENERIC
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@Pescadero.dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/21/2006 13:18:09
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On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 01:12:11PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
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> In message <20060221174712.E4EAC56534@rebar.astron.com>,
> Christos Zoulas writes:
> >On Feb 21,  9:34am, jonathan@Pescadero.dsg.stanford.edu,
> (Jonathan Stone) wrote:
> >:
> >-- Subject: Re: IPSEC in GENERIC
> >
> >| I didn't keep careful records, I found the results too depressing.
> >
> >I agree here.
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> Since kre asked for quantitative datapoints...
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> what I recall is that turning on IPSEC gave roughly a factor of 2 hit
> in UDP packets received and delivered to userspace.  I honestly don't
> recall if that was FAST_IPSEC, or KAME IPsec.

And how recent was that? I have been informed that recent changes make=20
KAME (in NetBSD) not suck as bad with the SPD lookup, so number could need=
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reevaluating.

Take care,

Bill

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