TP Link TL-R600VPN vpn capacity
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OK guys,
I've got a few of these in the wild, but they are all for single point to point ipsec tunnels. Now these things are super inexpensive but i haven't had any problems out of them. My question to you is this..........on their spec page they say that this thing can handle 20 tunnels......who believes that?
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If the hardware is encoded for IPSec/PPTP (which I'm guessing it is) it probably can handle that. The bigger question is, can your bandwidth?
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Well, I dont need 20, but I do need 7 and currently have 7 running on an ASA 5505. it's just acting buggy lately.
I've looked at this as well from Ubiquiti, their EdgeRouter8 I do not have any experience with the ubiquiti product, looks nice!
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Number of tunnels is really a factor of licensing. There is almost zero overhead in the creation and maintenance of additional tunnels. That it can only handle twenty is actually the surprising part. That's a very low number.
It's the volume of traffic on a tunnel that will push the device, not the existence of the tunnel itself.
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this is for a $300 device, and a company that only has 7 tunnels (and won't hit 20 for a couple years).
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@Hubtech said:
this is for a $300 device, and a company that only has 7 tunnels (and won't hit 20 for a couple years).
Have you looked at the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite instead? Only $99 and I would expect it to handle way more than 20 IPsec tunnels.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@Hubtech said:
this is for a $300 device, and a company that only has 7 tunnels (and won't hit 20 for a couple years).
Have you looked at the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite instead? Only $99 and I would expect it to handle way more than 20 IPsec tunnels.
I mentioned the edge router 8 up there. I've never messed with one so i was looking for hands on from somebody.
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Why replace what you have if it's currently working? Keep turning up tunnels on what you have until it breaks - then make sure it's the router and not a bandwidth issue before replacing.
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@Dashrender said:
Why replace what you have if it's currently working? Keep turning up tunnels on what you have until it breaks - then make sure it's the router and not a bandwidth issue before replacing.
Not replace but switch what is going out into the wild. At $300 you can move up to the Ubiquiti rackmount units.
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@Hubtech said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@Hubtech said:
this is for a $300 device, and a company that only has 7 tunnels (and won't hit 20 for a couple years).
Have you looked at the Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite instead? Only $99 and I would expect it to handle way more than 20 IPsec tunnels.
I mentioned the edge router 8 up there. I've never messed with one so i was looking for hands on from somebody.
I have 10 (may be one more I lost track) of the Ubiquiti EdgeMax LITE (ERL) in production. I only use OpenVPN tunnels at the moment because they are easier to work with and I am not approaching the bandwidth limit of OpenVPN on the hardware (~10-14mbps encrypted). Not a single site I have an ERL installed at has a pipe that can push out more then 10mbps, so I will never have a problem with this for now. I do have one IPSEC tunnel up to a home user that I have not sent a new router yet and it has no issues either.
The ERL I have at my home office has a tunnel to every single one of the remote ERL at my clients and it never blinks.
Using IPSEC you can get throughput in the 100+mbps range with the ERL. The difference between IPSEC and OpenVPN is that the IPSEC encryption can be offloaded to hardware while the OpenVPN encryption all has to be done on the processor.
