Re: tunnel performance

From: Jay Hennigan (jay@west.net)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 15:55:36 GMT-3


On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Bolcer, Matt wrote:

> Does anybody have a feel for what the maximum throughput levels are for a
> GRE tunnel (without IPSec)?

Over what media? With what MTU? With hardware of what horsepower under
what load?

The additional overhead of the tunnel is 24 bytes, so with a 1500 byte
packet it could be 1476/1500 of whatever throughput you had without it
assuming everything is optimum.

"How fast is a brick?"

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