Hardware to sustain 1000 VPN Users
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Hi guys,
Any advise what hardware will be suitable to sustain 1000 OpenVPN users? Any pre-build platforms?
Regards,
Nick -
Hi guys,
Any advise what hardware will be suitable to sustain 1000 OpenVPN users? Any pre-build platforms?
Regards,
Nick1000 is a fair amount of users, but you'll probably be mostly constrained by CPU performance as it relates to the amount of bandwidth those users are consuming. OpenVPN being currently single-threaded, a single server instance will be bandwidth constrained by the amount of traffic requiring encryption/decryption. The same CPU constraints apply to the clients as well, but that load will be spread over many clients.
Have a look at this thread: http://serverfault.com/questions/439848/openvpn-performance-how-many-concurrent-clients-are-possible
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Hi whosmatt,
Thanks for your reply. I see the topic has been discussed in the past, but unfortunately in different forum.
From your experience guys, can someone share any reliable and fully compatible with pfsense motherboard / Optical Network Adapter / Cryptographic Card?
I'm looking forward to hearing from you!
Regards,
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i would suggest you contact the developers / commercial support @ https://www.pfsense.org/about-pfsense/#contact-us or http://portal.pfsense.org
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Hi heper,
I've just contacted the team.
Regards,
Nick