[clug] low power device for VPN end point
Luke Mewburn
lukem-clug at mewburn.net
Mon Jan 23 03:04:12 UTC 2017
On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 10:11:20PM +1100, Tony Lewis wrote:
| I'm looking for a low power device to be a VPN end point, and I am
| after recommendations, please.
|
| The key requirement is high VPN throughput. I lean towards
| OpenVPN, but because it's single-threaded, it seems there are
| often struggles to get anywhere close to native throughput. I
| understand IPSec implementations are/can be multithreaded, so that
| might better fit the bill.
|
| HDMI and GPU and desktop stuff is not important. Just low power,
| high crypto throughput, high reliability and solid Linux support.
|
| Tony
Hi Tony,
As you probably know, various low TDP Intel CPUs support the
AES-NI instructions, and newer OpenSSL has the ability to offload
that to the CPU.
E.g., my 3.5 year old Macbook Air has a 15W i7-4650U CPU @ 1.70GHz,
and it has the AES CPU instructions.
How about an Intel NUC or one of an equivalent/cheaper unit
from Gigabyte (etc), with a 15W or 35W CPU?
Or is that outside your power/cost budget?
cheers,
Luke.
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