Pix 525 VPN connections

c.davis · ‎07-13-2005

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.

travis-dennis_2 · ‎07-13-2005

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?

c.davis · ‎07-13-2005

Code is 6.3.3 and have it max. with Ram...

c.davis · ‎07-13-2005

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,...

travis-dennis_2 · ‎07-13-2005

Is this only doing VPN? No other throughput, bandwith, usage?

c.davis · ‎07-14-2005

CPU is 8~10 % mem is low....