v21 XG Home VPN Hardware acceleration

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Good evening, 
 Back testing XG Home, does v21 support hardware acceleration for IPsec and SSL VPN tunnels? I have XG Home installed on a XG230 R2 at mo, I have a XG135 R3 that has pfsense + on it atm, so pending successful testing, planning on dropping pfsense and such. The XG135 R3 has QAT too

Prism · Accepted Answer

Hello! 
 Yes, Sophos Firewall Home Edition does support hardware acceleration for cryptographic stuff. 
 Both IPsec and SSLVPN (OpenVPN) utilizes AES-NI. 
 MikeyS said: The XG135 R3 has QAT too 
 The Home Edition doesn't support QAT, but it will use AES-NI. 
 Also, I don't think QAT was ever used by Sophos.

v21 XG Home VPN Hardware acceleration

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