On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Simon P. Ditner<[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to connect about 4 homes together with a VPN to handle VoIP > in a family environment -- so I'm shying away from "exotic" things on > premises like linux boxes with humming fans. Is there anything > commodity out there that will act as a VPN server, and have > complimentary routers to act as VPN clients that could connect to it? > > Otherwise, I'm thinking of the Tomato+OpenVPN > (http://tomatovpn.keithmoyer.com/) distribution on WRT54g's, but > haven't tested how well it works with VoIP traffic. I may also do away > with the dedicated server, and set them up in a peer-to-peer fashion > to reduce latency.
Simon, I know Phil Mullis uses the PC Engines Alix boards running pfSense at his end points and has good things to say about them. Pros: - Fanless - Diskless - Low power - LX series processors have AES crypto accelleration so you can get decent VPN throughput. This is not true of most WRT implementations which get CPU bottlenecked because they are underpowered for encryption. This is based on my reading and I haven't confirmed it first hand yet. - pfSense is a great package that's stable, secure, and supports OpenVPN. I've been using it at my remote sites for about 2 years and not a single complaint. - pfSense supports packet capture if you ever need to troubleshoot. - pfSense embedded edition now supports in-place upgrade and packages (new in the last few months) - Lots of memory and flash available Cons: - No QOS within VPN tunnels - Cost penalty vs WRT: Alix delivered w/ accessories is about $250 vs WRT ready to go at $60-$100. I like the suggestion of using the Snoms for remotes. I never would have guessed that a phone had OpenVPN built in. Maybe the Alix is a good solution for your aggregation point. Dave --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
