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OpenVPN Cookbook

OpenVPN Cookbook

By : Jan Just Keijser
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OpenVPN Cookbook

OpenVPN Cookbook

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By: Jan Just Keijser

Overview of this book

OpenVPN provides an extensible VPN framework that has been designed to ease site-specific customization, such as providing the capability to distribute a customized installation package to clients, and supporting alternative authentication methods via OpenVPN’s plugin module interface. This book provides you with many different recipes to help you set up, monitor, and troubleshoot an OpenVPN network. You will learn to configure a scalable, load-balanced VPN server farm that can handle thousands of dynamic connections from incoming VPN clients. You will also get to grips with the encryption, authentication, security, extensibility, and certifications features of OpenSSL. You will also get an understanding of IPv6 support and will get a demonstration of how to establish a connection via IPv64. This book will explore all the advanced features of OpenVPN and even some undocumented options, covering all the common network setups such as point-to-point networks and multi-client TUN-style and TAP-style networks. Finally, you will learn to manage, secure, and troubleshoot your virtual private networks using OpenVPN 2.4.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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OpenSSL cipher speed


OpenVPN uses OpenSSL to perform all cryptographic operations. This means that the performance of an OpenVPN client or server depends on how fast the incoming traffic can be decrypted and how fast the outgoing traffic can be encrypted. For a client with a single connection to the OpenVPN server, this is almost never an issue, but with an OpenVPN server with hundreds of clients, the cryptographic performance becomes very important. Also, when running OpenVPN over a high-speed network link (Gigabit or higher), the cryptographic performance also plays an important role.

In this recipe, we will show how to measure the performance of the OpenSSL cryptographic routines and how this measurement can be used to improve the performance of an OpenVPN server.

Getting ready

This recipe is performed on a variety of computers:

  • An old laptop with an Intel Core2 Duo T9300 processor running at 2.5 GHz, running Fedora Linux 22 64bit

  • An older server with an Intel Xeon X5660 processor running...

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