On 06/09/2015 12:37 AM, Cheyenne Deal wrote:
> I know that wrap boards are not supported on pfsense but I was wondering if
> anyone know if a way of installing a os on it and getting it to be a vpn
> end point.

OS load aside, a few things to keep in mind to manage expectations:

Realistically, with its very slow CPU and other components, as a VPN
endpoint it would perform very poorly.

Without encryption the wrap can barely manage in the neighborhood of
20Mbit/s, with a VPN it would be much slower. Its newer (but still
outdated) descendant the ALIX could only manage 8-15Mbit/s of VPN
throughput without an accelerator enabled (depends on the encryption
algorithm). Last I saw, the wrap couldn't even manage 2Mbit/s of
encrypted traffic with 3DES, and though AES-128 would be faster, even
2-3x of 2Mbit/s is not much.

Between that and the age of the hardware, I'd not trust them in the wild
at this point for that role. The WRAP went EOL in 2007, and the ALIX
isn't far off. The newest WRAP would still be 8 years old.

I've got one tucked away on a shelf here but it hasn't been powered on
in many years.

Jim
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