Receive Side Scaling (RSS) which is also known as multi queue receive, distributes network receive flows across NIC card multiple hardware queues.

EOS secures the communication between EOS router instances using IPsec by employing control plane protocol Internet Key Exchange(IKEv1/IKEv2) and data plane protocol ESP(IPsec SA). IKE and IPsec Security Association(SA) use policies to ensure secure communication.