[Soekris] Soekris 5501 and pfSense with VPN

[Marc Balmer]

* Kenneth Fribert wrote:
> Hi All
>  
> Being brand new to the world of soekris, I'm sort of stumbling around in the dark, and I hope somebody can enlighten me :-)
>  
> I'm considering 5501-70 board for use here in Lynge at our mainsite.
> We in the IT department would probably like to have a VPN connection to the site.
> So the question is, will the 5501-70 be tough enough to handle a few VPN connections, or do we need to add the vpn1411, and will the vpn1411 even work with VPN in pfSense (IPsec ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec ), OpenVPN ( http://openvpn.net/ ))?

With an AMD Geode LX and OpenBSD we measured an IPsec throughput of
roughly 20 MBit/s.  Note that the chip has an AES-128 accelerator onboard
already.

- Marc