[CentOS] regarding vpn server for 1500 clients
Ray Van Dolson
rayvd at bludgeon.org
Fri Dec 19 18:59:27 UTC 2008
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:54:32PM -0500, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 01:14:34PM -0500, Ross Walker wrote:
> >
> >> On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rayvd at bludgeon.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> How about lots of GRE tunnels? :-)
> >>>
> >> Well PPTP is PPP over GRE, so that's basically it.
> >>
> >> PPTP can run without encryption too if the OP really doesn't care
> >> about encryption.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > The only thing I'll say in the world of using PPTP (via PoPToP) is to
> > consider what happens when most or all of your clients reconnect at one
> > time (network glitch, etc). This was my biggest challenge as the
> > original configuration had PPP calling all sorts of perl scripts and
> > such from its ip-up mechanism. The server would come to a complete
> > crawl as 800+ of these ip-up scripts would fire off along with their
> > associated tasks. This would result in clients timing out, links
> > failing, etc -- the server could never "catch up".
> >
>
> I was recommending it based on the protocol. I did mention that I have
> limited deployment experience.
>
> OUCH. All that perl could really kill the user experience.....
>
> Almost as bad as a D-H exponentiation!
>
It gets even worse... whoever had set up the system first didn't now
how to get the IP address correctly from a variable in the ip-up
script. So what'd they do? They called grep on /var/log/messages to
look for it.
You can imagine the fun this created.... :-)
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