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Title: VPN PPTP how to improve performance
Post by: Alejandro Lengua on June 11, 2003, 06:52:52 PM

I am running a PPTP VPN using an amd 400 mhz k6-2 with 192mb
of RAM. But I get packets lost and poor performance (speed).

Is there a way to improve it? What factors can help?
- Bandwidth?
- CPU power
- RAM?
- Lowering encryption level?

The NICs are 100Mbps and the service used are both dsl, but from
different providers, however without the VPN the performance is acceptable.

Title: Re: VPN PPTP how to improve performance
Post by: Alejandro Lengua on June 11, 2003, 06:54:05 PM

How many simultaneous connections are the maximum for this hardware?

Title: Re: VPN PPTP how to improve performance
Post by: jeroen on June 11, 2003, 07:27:21 PM

Are you running SME 5.6 because there are known problems with it in combination with VPN. I'd search te forum first.

Title: Re: VPN PPTP how to improve performance
Post by: Alejandro Lengua on June 11, 2003, 08:07:58 PM

yes I am running sme 5.6 with update 4 applied.