I mainly use wireguard for all my mikrotik devices.. but I just watched a Mikrotik Canada Video about the CCR2116, and it was mention that this router does not support traffic encryption? Can someone help me understand what they meant by that in the video ?
I need the power of this router but I definitely want to be able to use VPN for management and other things.
https://youtu.be/a9PKwtCdnd4?t=242
Thank you !!
Maybe Video Creator Is trying to refer to Hardware Encryption, anyway that video is obsolete, info on product page is updated.
Thank you !!
WireGuard’s ChaCha20 encryption lacks hardware acceleration on all platforms (not just on Mikrotik) unlike IPsec which is the preferred way if you are looking for fast VPN throughput. Check the product IPsec specs.
When vector extensions such as AVX get wider and faster like on upcoming high end ARM chips, ChaCha20-Poly1305 gets much faster.