Post your pfSense OpenVPN speed, and what hardware you are using.
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I'm thinking of buiding a dedicated pfSense box, and I'm interested in what hardware to us, I want to use as low power as possible without loosing more speed than neccessary
My current pfSense is a ESXI VM running on a Supermicro X10SLM+-LN4F with Xeon E3-1240 v3 and 32GB RAM
The pfSense VM uses 4 cores and 4GB RAM, and the only plugin I use is pfBlockerNG.My ISP speed is a 150/50Mbit/s cable connection, and when I run Ookia Speedtest without OpenVPN it looks like this:
And when I run Ookia Speedtest over OpenVPN it looks like this, and I'm suprised how little it affects the speed:
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I'm running an SG-4860 at home and get nearly the same throughput as I do without VPN. I don't often have an opportunity to fully saturate the line as we have a 1g symmetric f/o connection from Cox at home. I just tried Speedtest running OpenVPN from work where we have 100m symmetric fiber on TWC and got the following:
Speedtest on TWC Fiber: 90.8/96.1
VPN to Cox at home on SG-4860: 84.3/91
little over 6% overhead/reduction due to VPNI think this has more or less held true when I've had access to better bandwidth as well. Have never run into an issue where the 4860 is the bottleneck.
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Now I've put together a new dedicated pfSense box. I've used the following parts:
Chassis: Supermicro SC513F-350B
Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCL-F
CPU: Xeon e3-1220Lv2
RAM: 12GB DDR3 ECC, not sure about make or model
SSD: Kingston SSDNow A400 120GBMy connection is uppgraded since last time, so now it is: 300/50Mbi/s
And this is how it looks now.Without OpenVPN client:
With OpenVPN client:
When running OpenVPN at full speed the CPU utilation is about 10-12%
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I am Getting
Download: 340 MBPS
Upload: 60 MBPSHardware Specs are
CPU: 4 Cores
Ram: 8 GB
SSD: 500 GBMy Inernet connection is good and I got more Speed without pfsense openvpn but there is not that much difference.