VPN Bonding
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Will VPN bonding ever be developed? VPNs are usually heavily bottlenecked at 1/10th of WAN speed due to a single socket. VPN bonding over multiple WAN links would allow for greater throughput.
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Don't forget, many are also limited by the a asymmetrical bandwidth of many broadband connections. In my case, I get about 95 Mb down and 11 up. This means my VPN can never exceed 11 Mb and is often limited by lower bandwidth where I connect from.
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Ever? Hard to predict.
Also depends what you mean by bonding. True layer 2 style requires something over layer 3 I would think. There are a few companies out there claiming to have such things. I've never tried them myself.
Steve
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@stephenw10 said in VPN Bonding:
Ever? Hard to predict.
Were you referring to me? Yes, that's the max I'll ever see from my VPN, unless I get better bandwidth from my ISP. If I'm using my VPN to access the Internet via my home fireall, then all traffic will be limited to 11 Mb. Either download from the Internet and sent out the VPN, or from the remote computer and out to the Internet. Either way that 11 Mb limit will be there, no matter what the download bandwidth is. Of course, in this situation, all data will be passing both ways through my Internet connection.
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MLPPP is a type of bonding but over PPP. VPN bonding is quite similar. In order to get your theoretical download you have to have a partner on the other end that has at least your download as their upload. You cannot go this alone.
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No sorry I meant ever as in "Will VPN bonding ever be developed?"
In which case it probably will! But, yes, that sort of protocol requires co-operation at both ends.
Steve
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Something like https://www.openmptcprouter.com/ would be nice to have in Pfsense.
I would think it is easy to implement, but iam no programmer myself... -
Ah, well there you go. Perhaps unsurprisingly others have already done this:
https://mlvpn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.htmlSteve
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@stephenw10 said in VPN Bonding:
Ah, well there you go. Perhaps unsurprisingly others have already done this:
https://mlvpn.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.htmlSteve
Would be nice to have this in the Pfsense GUI, so its backed up and not overwritten after an big update.
New Gateway, apinger integration and so on. Maybe i should start a Bounty for a Package... -
A manual install to prove it works and does what it says it should, maybe in FreeBSD, would be the first step here.
It would certainly be interesting though.
Steve
