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RE: IPSec Throughput
Both are required. I'm just trying to fully understand the total overhead required per packet.
C I S C O S Y S T E M S Ted Hannock
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-----Original Message-----
From: Theo PAGTZIS [SMTP:T.Pagtzis@cs.ucl.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 9:30 AM
To: Ted Hannock
Cc: 'ipsec@lists.tislabs.com'
Subject: Re: IPSec Throughput
Is that only authentication or encryption as well that is required?
Theo
(UCL)
>To All,
>
>Does anyone know what effect IPSec has on a particular transmission? I read t
>he RFC and it stated that the AH is 31 bytes long. Is this the only overhead
>to an encrypted packet? If not, what else is added and how much overhead? If
> a 1meg file is encrypted using IPSec, what does the header/encryption add to
>this file?
>
>Any feedback would be appreciated.
>
> C I S C O S Y S T E M S Ted Hannock
> Systems Engineer
> Cable East Operations
>
> || || Voice - 1.609.642.7073
> || || Pager (Voice) - 1.800.365.4578
> |||| |||| Pager (E-Mail) - thannock@epage.cisco.com
> |||||| |||||| Fax - 1.609.642.7098
> ||||||||| ||||||||| E-mail - thannock@cisco.com
>
>308 Harper Drive, Suite 100
>Moorestown, New Jersey 08057
>
>