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)

Sf

Hello,

How "scale" performance and vpn users ?

I want say :
I want know if a n100 intel can support 20 ou 100 simultaneous vpn users.
And if need more ram or not (4go ? 8go ?)
How calculate vpn part ?

My target is small office, like 1 to 250 users, but not all on vpn of course.
Some rules for filtering enter and out, etc...
I try to evaluate, and need to understand how calculate a vpn user.

Gertjan

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

I try to evaluate, and need to understand how calculate a vpn user.

Easy.
You need to know what you 'consume' yourself. With out flat rate ISP price, this notion is lost.
Then you need to know what others need : this question, how hard you try, can't be answered.
From now on, stay at home, do what the 'working world' did during covid.
And go ask others how they experiences it, the quality of their uplink to work, etc.
Understand that everybody wants a "1 Gbit symmetrical" these days ^^

As shown above : 80/100 users over a 100/65 Mbit could work ... but I'm pretty sure they had to wait ones in a while to get to their 'data' ^^

Sf

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

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

I try to evaluate, and need to understand how calculate a vpn user.

Easy.
You need to know what you 'consume' yourself. With out flat rate ISP price, this notion is lost.
Then you need to know what others need : this question, how hard you try, can't be answered.
From now on, stay at home, do what the 'working world' did during covid.
And go ask others how they experiences it, the quality of their uplink to work, etc.
Understand that everybody wants a "1 Gbit symmetrical" these days ^^

As shown above : 80/100 users over a 100/65 Mbit could work ... but I'm pretty sure they had to wait ones in a while to get to their 'data' ^^

Thank for answer.

It's not bandwith or ISP that I want calculate, but cpu and memory needed.