Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread J.Witvliet
See below... -Original Message- From: centos-boun...@centos.org [mailto:centos-boun...@centos.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 12:03 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput On 08/20/2010 10:19 AM, Bill Campbell wrote

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread drew einhorn
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:20 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Last year i've been doing some experiments with openvpn. Just as the O.P. I was curious about sustainable throughput, and was disapointed about the results To obtain maximum resulst, i did: - use two rather heavy machines (HP

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/30/10 6:10 AM, drew einhorn wrote: On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:20 AM,j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Last year i've been doing some experiments with openvpn. Just as the O.P. I was curious about sustainable throughput, and was disapointed about the results To obtain maximum resulst, i

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/30/2010 03:20 AM, j.witvl...@mindef.nl wrote: Bottleneck was (in my case) the openvpn-process, that was running 100% on a single core, While network was not saturated. I found the same thing on a 1Gbps network. It's no surprise that the situation would be the same on a 10Gbps network.

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 08/30/2010 10:35 AM, John R Pierce wrote: did you try forcing the blowfish cipher? I've heard that's lower in CPU overhead than most others, although I've not tested this. Blowfish is the default. I also tested with AES-128-CBC and didn't see much difference in the throughput.

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-30 Thread Larry Vaden
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Boris Epstein borepst...@gmail.com wrote: bogomips        : 1993.68 If cost is a factor, you should be able to find used hp/Compaq rack-mount servers with Intel Xeon processors with these bogomips: dmesg | grep -i bogomips Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value

Re: [CentOS] OpenVPN throughput

2010-08-19 Thread John R Pierce
On 08/19/10 5:01 PM, Boris Epstein wrote: What sort of VPN does Draytek Vigor2130 run? Is it compatible with OpenVPN? googling says, ipsec and pptp. :-/ http://www.draytek.com/user/PdInfoDetail.php?Id=98#PdInfo (gotta look at the user's guide to find that out)