Does anyone have a solution to terminate dozens of IPSEC tunnels into a RB433ah? I have seen VPN accelerator mini-pci cards but I did not see them on the supported hardware/driver list. I’d like to extend IPSEC tunnels to each of my customers so as not to have to use wireless security. Ideally I’d like to use the routerboards, but if needed I could go another route. I just want to keep it under $400. Thanks,
Justin
Hardware accelerators are not supported by RouterBOARDs. It depends how many dozens do you want to terminate and how much traffic you want to send through.
I’m looking at about 30 IPSEC tunnels for about 3Mbps total user throughput. Any suggestions?
3Mbps or 3+30=90Mbps of IPSec traffic.
There should not be any problems for 3Mbps, however not for 90Mbps of the IPSec traffic.
please post network diagram with total bandwith on each link.
IPSec.
Tunnel/ AH+3DES
400 series RX- 6Mbps / TX-1,8Mbps
400AH(600Mhz) RX- 11Mbps / TX-3,8Mbps
400AH(680Mhz) RX- 12Mbps / TX-4Mbps
400AH(800Mhz) RX- 13Mbps / TX-4,8Mbps
ipsec des3 RB1000 500MBit 
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Hi all, I am here completely new, so sorry if I ask question answered already somewhere else.
What I am looking for is IPsec encryption performance guide, something similar to routing/conntrack one which can be found on routerboard web-site.
I suppose that it is not available; can you please share your knowledge about Ipsec performance on most common platforms?
Many thanks,
Astib