Thanks. That's very good info. I think I can live with that. Your info gives me a good sense of go ahead with it and you will be safe but plan ahead for hardware and bandwidth needed.
I will be creating a full notification system so I can be aware of the systems when they go down. These are all phone services so it's important to keep it all under radar the whole time. -Bruce On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:57 PM, Seth Mos <seth....@dds.nl> wrote: > The amount can be round off to the nearest 0. The number you ise for the > actual encryption is large but does not directly correlate to the size of > the idle traffic. > > The initial handshake is far more involved. If you enable keepalive you > will always have a steady stream. On my work ipsec cluster with 350 nodes > that ping to keep alive it is a few hundred kbit consistenly. > > I once calculated that a average site did 500 mb a month just on keep alive > traffic. > > Regards, > Seth > > typed on a tiny touchscreen, why exactly? > > Bruce B <bruceb...@gmail.com>schreef: > > >Hi everyone, > > > >I am looking to connect all my pfsense boxes to one single box for better > >administration and ease of access. I am looking to have every client > pfsense > >do an openvpn tunnel into my main pfSense box. I am using all Alix > hardware. > >However, the client pfsense boxes are sometimes not very good with > bandwidth > >and I don't want to spend the client bandwidth on OpenVPN specially when > >it's idel. > > > >I understand that even in idle mode there is traffic in between to keep > the > >connection solid. Can someone tell exactly how much bandwidth is wasted or > >consumed if I keep a 24/7 connection? > > > >Thanks, > >Bruce > > > >_______________________________________________ > >List mailing list > >List@lists.pfsense.org > >http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > List@lists.pfsense.org > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
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