FAST_IPSEC vs IPSEC performanc

[Sam Leffler]

On Tuesday 23 November 2004 01:04 am, Michael Vince wrote:
> Hey all.
>
> I have been googling around the Internet for information about IPSEC and
> FAST_IPSEC for freebsd on the Internet and wondered what gives best
> performance
> when I came across this  http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/netperf/
> It has some nice graphs / figures on performance of IPSEC and FAST_IPSEC
> via gigabit ethernet devices and as long as I am seeing this correctly
> it appears the regular IP_SEC is a fair bit faster in some areas then
> FAST_IPSEC.
> Does any one know if  this information correct?
> Anyone done there own benchmarks?

My Usenix paper has performancomparisons from a while ago:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bsdcon03/tech/full_papers/leffler_ipsec/leffler_ipsec_html/ce