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Re: [Openvpn-users] (no subject)


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] (no subject)
  • From: "Antonio Forster" <aforster@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 21:30:25 -0300

Serge,

first of all, thanks for the help


On 3/7/07, Serge Wautier <serge@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> PKI and user certificates relate to the same thing.
>
> The amount of certificates has no effect on the performance: The server
> doesn't keep track of all files. It simply checks the signature of the
> certificate of connecting clients (at connection time). Whether 1 or 1
> million certificates were emitted doesn't make any difference.
>
> Actually, according to your setup, the number of certificate might have one
> indirect effect on performance: CRLs. If you use a CRL (black list of
> revoked certificates), chances are your CRL is longer when you have more
> clients. Then again, I don't thing the impact would be meaningful since it
> should be compared to the total workload (including SSL encryption of
> tunnels) which can also be expected to grow with the number of clients.

do you have any information on testing performance on openvpn? Something like:

total throughput   X    concurrent clients   x  kind of processor

or any other performance testing.

TIA

Antonio
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