07-13-2005 06:45 PM - edited 02-21-2020 01:52 PM
I am in the final phase of a vpn deployment and am running into an issue with my PIX. It appears to have proformance issue once I reached the 90 + count for VPN connections into the device, Is there and if so what is the maximum number of VPN connections a PIX 525 can handle? I Thank You for your help with this questions.
07-13-2005 06:56 PM
You should be OK with 90 tunnels
PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
Cleartext throughput: Up to 330 Mbps
Concurrent connections: 280,000
168-bit 3DES IPSec VPN throughput: Up to 145 Mbps with VAC+ or 72 Mbps with VAC
128-bit AES IPSec VPN throughput: Up to 135 Mbps with VAC+
256-bit AES IPSec VPN throughput: Up to 135 Mbps with VAC+
Simultaneous VPN tunnels: 2000
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Processor: 600-MHz Intel Pentium III Processor
RAM: 128 or 256 MB of SDRAM
Flash memory: 16 MB
Cache: 256 KB level 2 at 600 MHz
System bus: Single 32-bit, 33-MHz PCI
How much memory do you have and what code are you running? How about any non-VPN throughput?
07-13-2005 07:10 PM
Code is 6.3.3 and have it max. with Ram...
07-13-2005 07:08 PM
Thanks, I should have added the total number I am trying to get connected is 120+ with this soultion. It was working fine until I hit the 90 mark ? What do you think ? Thanks Again,...
07-13-2005 07:14 PM
Is this only doing VPN? No other throughput, bandwith, usage?
07-14-2005 04:32 AM
CPU is 8~10 % mem is low....
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