hello, One of the sites I work at has a symantec 200r router that can do VPN. The remote users who access the VPN for unix applications run great, pretty decent speed.....however the windows clients are slow. I didn't have any say in getting the symantec router....just so you know. I posted a question on the cisco newsgroup asking for which router has the best performance for doing VPN and much to my surprise, OPENBSD was given as an alternative for doing VPN. So, my question is.....regarding VPN, how is suse compared to openbsd? I recall reading that to do VPN on linux (don't recall if its redhat or suse) you have to recompile the kernel....but on the openbsd system that isn't required. Has anyone done a VPN using suse and can they post any performance reviews/impressions as compared to a good quality router? thanks, Oskar ps. The DSL for this site is a business grade 1.5MB line.
Oskar, I have 5 Firewall/VPN systems at clients and they work great. I have not done any comparisons but I don't see any difference when connecting Windows, MacOS X, or Linux. I find that broadband connection is the limiter which makes sense. Is anyone interested in seeing a comparison and if so what devices would you like to see in the comparison? Robert On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 01:09 PM, Oskar Teran wrote:
hello, One of the sites I work at has a symantec 200r router that can do VPN. The remote users who access the VPN for unix applications run great, pretty decent speed.....however the windows clients are slow. I didn't have any say in getting the symantec router....just so you > know. I posted a question on the cisco newsgroup asking for which router has the best performance for doing VPN and much to my surprise, OPENBSD was given as an alternative for doing VPN. So, my question is.....regarding VPN, how is suse compared to openbsd? I recall reading that to do VPN on linux (don't recall if its redhat or suse) you have to recompile the kernel....but on the openbsd system that isn't required. Has anyone done a VPN using suse and can they post any performance reviews/impressions as compared to a good quality router?
thanks,
Oskar
ps. The DSL for this site is a business grade 1.5MB line.
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Robert Fenney wrote:
Oskar,
I have 5 Firewall/VPN systems at clients and they work great. I have not done any comparisons but I don't see any difference when connecting Windows, MacOS X, or Linux. I find that broadband connection is the limiter which makes sense.
Is anyone interested in seeing a comparison and if so what devices would you like to see in the comparison?
openbsd...since that was recommended on the cisco list! a high end cisco router (or just a high end router in general), a pix box (or similar) netscreen (saw good reviews of it) a suse box running swan? (I guess, there are several ways to do VPN on linux from what I've read) another one is smoothwall.......on suse swan and/or smoothwall on redhat? (I'm not sure if there would be a difference in performance...but maybe the details of getting it going...maybe one distro has less of the "pain in the neck" factor for getting swan/smoothwall to work?) thanks, Oskar ps. most important would be the VPN throughput stats along with what types/levels of encryption were used
Robert
On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 01:09 PM, Oskar Teran wrote:
hello, One of the sites I work at has a symantec 200r router that can do VPN. The remote users who access the VPN for unix applications run great, pretty decent speed.....however the windows clients are slow. I didn't have any say in getting the symantec router....just so you > know. I posted a question on the cisco newsgroup asking for which router has the best performance for doing VPN and much to my surprise, OPENBSD was given as an alternative for doing VPN. So, my question is.....regarding VPN, how is suse compared to openbsd? I recall reading that to do VPN on linux (don't recall if its redhat or suse) you have to recompile the kernel....but on the openbsd system that isn't required. Has anyone done a VPN using suse and can they post any performance reviews/impressions as compared to a good quality router?
thanks,
Oskar
ps. The DSL for this site is a business grade 1.5MB line.
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Hello. This sounds interesting. My firm sells a lot of Sonicwall devices, many of which are used for site-to-site VPNs as well as road warriors. Their advertised figures show very respectable throughput rates which would far outstrip today's broadband connections. However, it would be good to see how different systems perform against each other across different types of connections. Apparently, a big help in boosting VPN performance is to use a smaller MTU. I have seen suggestions to make it as small as 1420, as this then leaves plenty of room for the extra VPN data in the packets without causing fragmentation, which really messes up VPNs. What tools would we use to measure performance ? Bye for now, Stuart. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Fenney [mailto:rfenney@fentek.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 15:55 To: Oskar Teran Cc: SuSE List (E-mail) Subject: Re: [SLE] question about VPN stuff Oskar, I have 5 Firewall/VPN systems at clients and they work great. I have not done any comparisons but I don't see any difference when connecting Windows, MacOS X, or Linux. I find that broadband connection is the limiter which makes sense. Is anyone interested in seeing a comparison and if so what devices would you like to see in the comparison? Robert On Wednesday, April 9, 2003, at 01:09 PM, Oskar Teran wrote:
hello, One of the sites I work at has a symantec 200r router that can do VPN. The remote users who access the VPN for unix applications run great, pretty decent speed.....however the windows clients are slow. I didn't have any say in getting the symantec router....just so you > know. I posted a question on the cisco newsgroup asking for which router has the best performance for doing VPN and much to my surprise, OPENBSD was given as an alternative for doing VPN. So, my question is.....regarding VPN, how is suse compared to openbsd? I recall reading that to do VPN on linux (don't recall if its redhat or suse) you have to recompile the kernel....but on the openbsd system that isn't required. Has anyone done a VPN using suse and can they post any performance reviews/impressions as compared to a good quality router?
thanks,
Oskar
ps. The DSL for this site is a business grade 1.5MB line.
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Suse includes FreeS/WAN patches in all their Kernels, and provide the admin
software as RPMs. No need to recompile. Just configure it and go.
On Wed, 09 Apr 2003 15:09:23 -0500
Oskar Teran
hello, One of the sites I work at has a symantec 200r router that can do VPN. The remote users who access the VPN for unix applications run great, pretty decent speed.....however the windows clients are slow. I didn't have any say in getting the symantec router....just so you know. I posted a question on the cisco newsgroup asking for which router has the best performance for doing VPN and much to my surprise, OPENBSD was given as an alternative for doing VPN. So, my question is.....regarding VPN, how is suse compared to openbsd? I recall reading that to do VPN on linux (don't recall if its redhat or suse) you have to recompile the kernel....but on the openbsd system that isn't required. Has anyone done a VPN using suse and can they post any performance reviews/impressions as compared to a good quality router?
thanks,
Oskar
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participants (4)
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Matthew Carpenter
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Oskar Teran
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Robert Fenney
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Stuart Powell