Add AESNI to existing board?
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Well, I still have my old, aging APU1D4, that I’m no longer using. I have someone interested, so long as it can handle their 15 computers, plus support up to 3 VPN clients max. With 4 GB RAM and 32 GB mSATA, I think the former is covered. It’s the VPN clients I’m not certain of, as there is no hardware crypto onboard. There are 2x Mini PCIe slots. Is there any such thing as a VPN accelerator card that fits into a Mini PCIe slot?
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Perhaps I should add: All PCs are hardwired ethernet, and nothing fancy on the network like vlans, etc.
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What's the WAN bandwidth? What sort of VPN?
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Not certain as to the bandwidth, although it seems to be sufficient to run a single OpenVPN connection with the current Netgear router. I haven’t tried more than that. Most of the time when VPN will used, it’ll be just one stream. Could potentially go up to 3.
As far as the VPN type on the new router, either ipsec or openvpn. I’m not too particular.
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Really the bandwidth is all that matters. 100 clients all using 10kbps is far less CPU intensive than 1 client trying to use 10Mbps.
IPSec will be faster but is generally harder to setup and less flexible.
Steve
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@aaronouthier
Internet bandwidth is advertised at 300/30. Actual throughput is unknown. -
Ok, you won't get 300Mbps over a VPN but since that's download only you're far more likely to be limited by the 30Mbps upload which it should handle no problem.
Steve
