How many max VPN user supports Pfsense

AtulH

Hi team,

Let me know how many max VPN users supports by virtual pfsense firewall and at what prerequisites for this.

Rico

There is no limitation in pfSense, you can have as many Users / VPN Instances as you want.

-Rico

AtulH

Thanks Rico,
and what about the approx. bandwidth required to connect 300 vpn users

viktor_g

Please read https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/vpn/performance.html

noplan

As a quick hint... What r u runnin over the tunnel
300 is quite a number

On a small company we run ~ 80 - 100 users with openVPN quickNdirty setup on a dedicated 100down n 65up with a dedicated hardware box

No problems so far
But there is only VidConf for Management on premise rest runs over teams aka cloud with split tunnel

Yes we grouped our users by what they do
(bandwidth need) that was more pain in the ass than the setup

Hardware some xeons and about 128gb RAM
All On ssd raid0

It was a Covid quick setup
But runs as hell for a proof of concept ;)

Rico

SSD RAID0 for a firewall? To each their own...but sounds more like Sadomaso.

-Rico

noplan

@Rico said in How many max VPN user supports Pfsense:

.but sounds more like Sadomaso

yes absolute true !

but in this case it was planned as a proof of concept,
so lets walk downstairs see what u get on hardware glue it (literally) together an
fire it up ;)

and yeah its still workin,
a little mess with the reporting but the controlling guys dont wanna mess with the it folks anymore (it policy on devices done the trick pretty good)