[vpn] Re: Performance question.

[Jeff Klein]

Hello Ryan

On 05-Mar-02, you wrote:

> Encrypted traffic isn't compressible. Your RAS users are seeing...

True.

> data before encryption. Strict Ipsec (which your Nortel probably uses)
> does no compression.
> 

Not necessarily true. Some IPsec implementations (such as Alcatel's)
implement the IPcomp RFC. This compresses the cleartext before passing it
to be encrypted. In fact, some of the IPsec hardware gateways include a
hardware compression assist engine.

Jeff Klein



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