Accroding to the Performance Results on their product Websites (urls above, at the bottom of the pages), they have the exact same performance, but the price differs 100 $ (one has 1 GB memory, the other has 2GB memory).
Is there actually a good reason to go for the more expensive model if their performance is the same ?
Does it mean that the Version with hardware encryption would be better for use cases with (e.g. ipsec VPN) but if you use it for normal operations (Basic Switching & Routing) there won’t be any better performance ?
I’m new to this. My understanding is the hardware encryption is for AES only and if you’re VPN clients connect that way and you have say 10 at the same time, it can help. Also, if you want to bridge two LAN’s separated by a WAN you would want to encrypt (tunnel) them with hardware encryption.
Hmmh, we do not have any plans to use VPN’s on the Routerboard boxes at the moment. As the border firewall’s are doing the site-to-site- and client-VPN at the moment.
But i guess we will just spend the additional 100$, so in case we will use encryption, we are on the safe side.