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Troubleshooting OpenVPN
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Troubleshooting OpenVPN

by Eric F Crist
March 2017
Intermediate to advanced
178 pages
3h 48m
English
Packt Publishing
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Single thread

A final, significant item to note is that OpenVPN is single-threaded (inclusive of OpenVPN 2.4). Regardless of how many processors or threads provided by the CPU, OpenVPN will be limited to a single thread. In various tests in recent years, a realistic limit of about 200 client connections is considered the maximum before performance falls off considerably.

It is possible to work around this limitation using load balancing across multiple OpenVPN server instances. These scenarios are more complicated as they require the administrator do additional configuration to ensure the two (or more) instances are able to communicate and clients are able to connect to the appropriate server(s).

The inclusion of AES-NI helps with this single-threading, ...

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ISBN: 9781786461964