OpenVPN Test On LAN

Here is how to test your OpenVPN on the same network (local network) as your VPN server.

Change the remote line to point to the local private IP of your OpenVPN server, now you can connect to the vpn server while sitting on the same subnet.

For example your remote connection is MYDNS.dyndns.org, change this to point to the actual IP of the device on the network ex 192.168.1.100(If your OpenVPN server is your router, it will be the address of the router 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1, etc.

In the image above I added a second remote line and commented out the first one by using a # sign, when I want to revert back I can just comment out the local remote line and uncomment the dynamic dns one.

PC Engines WRAP.1E2 vs ALIX.6B2

Testing WRAP 1E2 and Alix 6B2, both were running pfSense 2.0.1

This firewall box is setup has a standalone OpenVPN server, running off of 1 NIC(LAN), Encryption is AES-256.

Here are my results for 1 user through the VPN on both box's and some spec's:

Label	WRAP.1E2	ALIX.6B2
CPU Usage:	51.00%	56.00%
Memory Usage:	48.00%	22.00%
Download Speed(Mbps):	3.1	10.65
Upload Speed(Mbps):	0.48	0.51
Ping Time(ms):	20	11
CPU   :	233 MHz AMD Geode SC1100 CPU	500 MHz AMD Geode LX800
DRAM:	128 MB SDRAM	256 MB DDR DRAM
NIC's  :	3	2
USB   :	0	2
Other :	1 Mini PCI	1 Mini PCI + 1 Mini PCI Express + On-board SIM Slot

The point of this post was to show the throughput of the VPN on the hardware and whether or not I needed a Soekris Crypto Card or if the hardware upgrade was enough. This is just a post I made a while back but never submitted for some reason. Since then I have tried running VPN on a Linux server, DD-WRT router, and Mikrotik router. While this is PC Engine is great firewall and VPN server in one, I am trying to minimize the amount of device's I have powered on. I'll be making a post about the Mikrotik wireless router soon, this has firewall, VPN, WiFi and many more features.