cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 
cancel
315
Views
0
Helpful
1
Replies

Performance of the PIX 515E w/ IPsec

emaillis
Level 1
Level 1

Hi,

I'm trying to compare the VPN performance (max number of simultaneous VPNs, and speed) of a PIX 515E in various configurations (Software encryption, VAC+). Does anybody know the perf in Software?

Thanks in advance,

Emmanuel

1 Reply 1

shannong
Level 4
Level 4

The numbers are 22Mbps for Restricted models and 63Mbps for Unrestricted/Failover models, which use the VAC+. However, you shouldn't expect to achieve those since the measurements are done while the Pix is doing nothing else and processing full size packets.

The complexity of the configuration (dynamic remote clients or static lan-to-lan), number of concurrent clients, per-user ACLs, and other items are usually more of a concern than pure throughput unless you have a really fat Internet pipe or are performing encryption on FastEthernet connected speeds.