Abstract

Cylink Corporation commissioned The Tolly Group to benchmark the performance of a pair of NetHawks in a LAN-to-LAN (IPSec) VPN gateway. The NetHawks, equipped with two full duplex, Fast Ethernet interfaces, were tested for packet per second throughput, file transfer performance, interactive application performance, session capacity and latency. In tests, all traffic was forwarded within a single IPSec Security Association (SA) and was encrypted using DES-3 (triple Data Encryption Standard); data integrity verification was performed with DESMAC (DES Message Authentication Code).