VPN Accelerator for Alix

[costasppc]

Hello,

Can anyone suggest a VPN accelerator card for Alix 2d3? I need the best performance for OpenVPN, but not many simultaneous users (1 or 2).

Best regards

Kostas

[stephenw10]

The Soekris HiFn card is what most use:
http://store.netgate.com/Soekris-VPN1411-Crypto-accelerator-P319.aspx
However you will get better throughput for, perhaps, not much more by swapping out the Alix for something more powerful.

Steve

[viragomann]

Have you enabled hardware crypto of AMD Geode LX in System > Advanced > Miscellaneous and in OpenVPN servers config?
This should work well with AES-128-CBC encryption. However the OpenVPN throughput is limited at about 20 mb/s with this hardware.