[wellylug] Linux VPN Router Hardware

[Nigel Roberts]

Hi Ewen,

On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 at 15:27:48 +1200, Ewen McNeill wrote:

> In message <20050804030859.GB31061 at ninja.nobiscuit.com>, Nigel Roberts writes:
> >On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 at 15:00:01 +1200, Donald Gordon wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 13:49:52 +0200, Martin B=E4hr <mbaehr at email.archlab.tu=
> >wien.ac.at> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:53:01PM +1200, Rob Giltrap wrote:
> >> > > Can handle a full 10Mb/sec traffic load (this is critical) [...]
> >> >
> >> > you might want to look at the wrt54gs and related machines.
> >>
> >> Are they fast enough to do the crypto for 10MBps of VPN traffic?
> >
> >Do they need to do encryption? What network will they be running over?
> 
> Considering the original post said:
> 
> | I looking for recommendations for hardware to run a Linux VPN router setup.
> 
> I'm guessing "yes".

I would argue that VPN does not necessarily imply encryption, and even
if encryption is required, it may be handled by some other device
eg. a cable modem.

But I will wait to hear back from Rob :)

Regards,
Nigel