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Disabling NP offloading for unsupported IPsec encryption or authentication algorithms

Disabling NP offloading for unsupported IPsec encryption or authentication algorithms

In general, more recent IPsec VPN encryption and authentication algorithms may not be supported by older NP processors. For example, NP4 network processors do not support SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. IPsec traffic with unsupported algorithms is not offloaded and instead is processed by the FortiGate CPU. In addition, this configuration may cause packet loss and other performance issues. If you experience packet loss or performance problems you should set the npu-offload option to disable. Future FortiOS versions should prevent selecting algorithms not supported by the hardware.

Disabling NP offloading for unsupported IPsec encryption or authentication algorithms

In general, more recent IPsec VPN encryption and authentication algorithms may not be supported by older NP processors. For example, NP4 network processors do not support SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. IPsec traffic with unsupported algorithms is not offloaded and instead is processed by the FortiGate CPU. In addition, this configuration may cause packet loss and other performance issues. If you experience packet loss or performance problems you should set the npu-offload option to disable. Future FortiOS versions should prevent selecting algorithms not supported by the hardware.