Performance VPN over the internet

[Fred.Krom at ict.nl]

Thanks for all the answers!

My problem is not the speed of tinc I see, but the speed of the internet. If I
run the vpn over one provider for example UUnet in Holland, it is possible to
get a 2Mb connection. When I try to ping to Germany it cost a 40/50 ms (that is
the turn-a-round of a 64k link ;-( )
The question for me is to order a 2Mb line or to vpn 2Mb over the internet, the
vps is the cheapest ;-)

Regards
Fred





Marijn Vriens <marijn at sanity.dhs.org> on 13-02-2001 12:38:49

Please respond to tinc at nl.linux.org

To:   tinc at nl.linux.org
cc:    (bcc: Fred Krom/DEV/ICT)
Subject:  Re: Performance VPN over the internet



On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:49:48PM +0100, Fred.Krom at ict.nl wrote:
>
>
> Hi 'tinc users'
>
> I'm new whit tinc and this mail-list.
> I like to build a vpn over the internet between two sites in Holland and
> Germany. Are there some experience whit the performance (turn-a-round en
> bandwidth) of a link. I want to use it for a 1,5Mb connection.
>

Maybe interesting tidbit.. I have been using tinc to form a VPN
between the Netherlands and Chile (traceroute tells there are 24hops
between the hosts). Often both hosts have their network connections
loaded and still tinc continues to provide a workable VPN.

For the ping times between these two hosts (around 1second) the
overhead of tinc is not noticeable. The only config change needed was
to set a PingTimeout of 20 secs. 5secs is sometimes too soon.

Marijn.

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