Questions about VPN phases on cisco

Feb 02, 2010 0 Replies

Hello I have a GRE+IPSEC tunnel between two routers



HQ C2651XM with AIM VPN EP ios 12.4(15)T9 and C831 12.4(18)



phase 1


3des sha group2


phase 2



3des esp sha


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Question 1)



Both the ciscos have 3des/des hardware assisted encryption so I don't get any performance hit using that cyphers.



The phase 1 is used only to establish tunnel, right? So if I put for example



phase1: aes 256 sha group 5



I just use more cpu cycles at the establishment of the tunnel, but once the tunnel is established I don't have any performance hit?



question 2)



In a gre+ipsec tunnel is the same, to apply the crypto map on the phisical interface where the tunnel is terminated, or applying the tunnel security ipsec... on the tunnel interface? I think that applying a tunnel security policy on the tunnel, changes the tunnel from GRE to IPSEC tunnel ipv4. right?


thank you



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