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GETVPN performance with 2911s - capped at 67Mbps

anestis.iliadis
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Hi all,

I wanted to ask if any of you have real world numbers on the GETVPN performance with 2911 routers?

I have a pretty simple setup with 2 key servers - 4 group members. I connected 2 laptops on two different group members and did an iperf test. Unfortunately the results were pretty disheartening. I only got 66-67Mbps/sec max and the router CPU was constantly at 77% !!


All the routers were 2911 with 2gigs of RAM installed and I was using AES 256 for the traffic. (I don't think lowering to 128 bits would give me that much of a performance boost). I wish we could afford ASRs but we can't so I would love to hear other people's experience on this with real world results with similar platforms.

thank you -

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Leo Laohoo
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I only got 66-67Mbps/sec max and the router CPU was constantly at 77% !!

That's about right.  The 2911 is rated for 180 Mbps (half duplex and no encryption).

Refer to this chart.

I personally would peg the 2911 to around 45-50 Mbps full duplex and with encryption.

60Mbit (FD, IMIX) is recommended IPsec throughput data I saw in charts available internally (not the most recent though).

2951 should be just above 100mbit (again recommended not maximum).

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