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:
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.
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.
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ReplyDeleteGreat review. Any idea why up is soslow
Have you seen this note: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Are_cryptographic_accelerators_supported
Looks like this may improve your porfornace 10-20% all else being equal
Thanks, I saw that. I don’t think you need that crypto card unless your CPU usage is constantly high(70%+). I was about to buy that card but decided it wasn’t worth it. The upload is slow because its the max speed from my internet provider, I should of mentioned that in the review. Download speed was not affected by this.
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