Monthly Archives: February 2009
IPSec throughput tests between 2 Soekris 5501 running pfsense
Late last year I was playing with pfsense in order to replace ssh+vtund connections between sites with a cleaner ipsec rig. To that effect I set up 2 soekris 5501 with HiFn crypto accelerators, directly connected via a Cat-6 ethernet … Continue reading
Posted in hardware, infrastructure
Tagged 5501, benchmark, crypto, hifn, network, soekris, vpn
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Fun with R and wifi art
On Friday I was having a frustrating experience with our wifi system, a nifty setup from Extricom. Ping round-trips were varying widly but always going back from a 1 s to a sub-10 ms elapsed time. I ran ping for … Continue reading
