Hello everyone.
I have just set up my open vpn tunnel successfully. I can reach all
the LAN machines from the outside. The firewall forwards port 1194
to the open vpn server, and this server routes the traffic from out
of the vpn tunnel into the lan.
Alternatively, I can access the LAN also through an ipsec tunnel. In
this case, the firewall (=sonicwall) itself does all the vpn stuff,
and on the notebook I use VPNTracker as the client. I want to
replace this ipsec construction with open vpn.
Now there is a performance problem: inside the LAN is a database
server running, and on my notebook the database client is
installed.
It now takes about 40 seconds to fire up the database client when
being connected through ipsec.
But it takes more than three minutes to start the database client
when being connected through the open vpn tunnel.
I cannot see the reason: it is the same internet connection, and the
vpn server is sleeping: the load stays below 0.1 all the time.
Pinging the LAN gives the following results:
~8 ms ipsec <=> ~12 ms open vpn, with no load on the tunnel
but:
~10-15 ms ipsec <=> 300-700 ms open vpn while starting the database
client
How come? How can I find the bottle neck?