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Patrick Marquetecken wrote: | At work we are going to setup a site to site VPN connection with two | Gentoo machines with OpenVPN. | What would be good stress and performance tests, to see if it will perform | like we think? |
That really depends on how you expect to be using the site to site VPN,
What kind of traffic? Size of data? Number of users? What is the speed of your link (each end)? Is the ISP Level 3? (both ends) (you will get better performance if the ISP is level 3) How many hops are there between the two sites and what is slowest point? Is this a separate line from you normal Internet traffic, if not, then what is the current bandwidth used as it will not decrease and you will just be adding traffic with the VPN.
If you are only going to be using it to transfer data, then you can transfer test data of the size you will be usually sending. But if you are going to be having users on both ends accessing data between the sites this will take a larger toll on the bandwidth. There really is no good way to test how users will effect the bandwidth without having them use it.
I did not directly answer you question, but I did give you some things to look at and what effects some things will have. If you have a T1 line and you are already loading it down then adding a VPN will just increase the load.
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