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Virtual private networks / Re: Migrated from pfSense to OPNSense - OpenVPN throughput not what it used to be

« on: May 02, 2024, 09:47:46 am »

Franco, I am sure there are lots of differences but my issue I am trying to solve is the performance one.
It would be odd to say a newer OS would be that much worse than the previous one? (Windows 11 enters the chat...)

I've poked and prodded around and cannot see anything I have done wrong. I've also used different servers for PIA and same thing.

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Virtual private networks / Re: Migrated from pfSense to OPNSense - OpenVPN throughput not what it used to be

« on: May 01, 2024, 09:24:03 pm »

Should have added - CPU goes to 45-50% when running a download.
It never budged on pfSense once hardware acceleration was enabled.

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Virtual private networks / Migrated from pfSense to OPNSense - OpenVPN throughput not what it used to be

« on: May 01, 2024, 09:22:28 pm »

Hi,

A new OPNSense user here so still feeling my way around.

I've spent a few days now migrating / rebuilding from pfsense over to opnsense (same hardware) and today got around to the VPN side of things. I have a VPN with Private Internet Access through which I push some traffic.

With pfsense I use to get near-wire speed of 500Mb down. On OPNSense, without VPN, I get near-wire speed (400-450) which is expected.

When I run it over the VPN, I only get 150-170Mb/s down.

• I read that as of 22, AES-NI is supported in the kernel so I don't explicitly need to do anything with it.
• I note that within the settings, hardware acceleration is set to None. (Assuming this is correct)

• hardware: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz (2 cores, 4 threads)
• instance: OPNsense 24.1.6-amd64, FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE-p11, OpenSSL 3.0.13
• load average: 0.26, 0.28, 0.34

I am using Private Internet Access, the same sever (address at least) as I used before.
I am using OpenVPN "legacy".

Am I missing something that is slowing it down?