[CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

Boris Epstein borepstein at gmail.com
Thu Aug 19 16:53:34 UTC 2010


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi> wrote:
>> We are working on setting up two private networks linked by a public
>> network which is fast (1 Gbit/s) but potentially insecure. Since the
>> hosts on our two networks need to talk to each other, and do so
>> securely, we have decided to use OpenVPN to connect them, making one
>> gateway a server and the other a client. The connectivity part was
>> easy to establish and worked like a charm. The only problem was, and
>> is, performance.
>>
>> We have two old PIII-class machines that are being tested for the role
>> of the gateways. We have put new 1 Gbit NIC's in them and they work
>
> Why you are using such a antique hardware?
>
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Dunno. Antique or not, there are still plenty of things it can do for
us - so why not use it? :)

Boris.



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