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VPN connections
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: June 12, 2007 at 17:05:30 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: AMD AthalonXP / 512meg Product: Shuttle AK32VN
Comment:
Would any of you guys know the maximum number of VPN connections I could have on a single server ?
Right now our plan was to be running Fedora 2.6 Kernal but would reconsider using OpenBSD or FreeBSD if they would for some reason be able to handle more connections.
Name: dmj2 Date: June 12, 2007 at 23:01:22 Pacific
Reply:
As many as the box/network can handle.
We run openvpn on an OS/X server, no more than 15 users, but I've never had any problems. The bottleneck is usually network bandwidth. It's also easy to load-balance between servers w/ openvpn, so you can have two servers for redundancy & they can split the load.
I would use FreeBSD, just cuz it's my favorite, and if you don't install all the XWindows crap, then it could handle more connections. I've also run the server on linux & windows machines with no problems. It's a great piece of software, check it out.
Name: LinuxOS2 Date: June 13, 2007 at 06:45:26 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks for the reply, bandwidth right now is not an issue for us however the total number of connections is still something I am looking to find out, I have Googled this and the answers are all over the place anywhere from 253 to unlimited. What I was hoping for was someone that has had to deal with a very large number of connections and how many that would be ?
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