OpenVPN bridging with only one interface?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Feb 9, 2006, at 09:38, Ben Scott wrote:

> However, crypto is resource
> intensive -- especially CPU intensive.  The WRT54G is a fairly bitty
> box; trying to use it for that may drag down performance on
> everything.

Just for a frame of reference, the WRT54G has a 216MHz MIPS CPU, and 
the SonicWall Pro's I've worked with have a 233MHz StrongARM.  In no 
way take that as any kind of recommendation for a SonicWall Pro, but 
they can handle several concurrent VPN sessions.  Mix in key size, 
cipher, number of users, and stir.

Speaking of which, only the 3rd party firmwares seem to use this CPU 
properly.  I had bought my parents a WRT54Gv4 last summer but left it 
with the stock firmware until DD-WRTv23 matured sufficiently to deploy 
over-the-wire-from-360-miles-away.  Their 'net speed was pretty bad and 
our h.323 videophone was spotty and choppy with both the out-of-the-box 
and latest-from-website firmwares.  I thought it was their cable modem. 
  So, last night I loaded on the final version of DD-WRTv23 and the 
thing blazes - twice the throughput and the video phone works 
perfectly.

Go, Free Software!.  I'd like to know how many people are on their 
internal team.

-Bill

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