Looking to create a vpn server where clients can speak to one another. So far so good using OpenVPN. The question I have is how many clients can I have per server? We are looking to have several thousand clients at a time.
What kind of hardware would we be looking at?
Thanks!
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Encrypting and decrypting will take up CPU. At work here a basic P4 3.0GHz with 2GB RAM handles about 40-50 concurrent connections with very little effort. But no file transfers happen so there is not much bandwidth usage.
You don't provide much detail, but in your situation it would be ideal if you could setup openvpn with a system with decent hardware. You could monitor that system and find out whether it can handle the load or not and upgrade based on it.
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