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Orbi VPN Client
I think this is a needed feature in Orbi line up is the ability to do VPN CLIENT. Given that Rep have sold us out to ISP. A VPN client on router is prefer. Orbi already have a VPN server why not p...
I'm not sure I follow the part about SoC's having slow thruput, so not a good choice for VPN. If all the traffic is already going thru the router, what's the diff it it also goes thru a VPN pipe? Alexa may generate some small amount of traffic, but my smart switch traffic has be be tiny! A couple times a day they get sent and "on" or "off" message, that can't even make a blip on the traffic meter.
I can understand the support problems, which are only going to get worse, when everybody starts jumping on the VPN bandwagon, but I think it would be fair for Netgear to have a certification process for the VPN providers. Chose one of the approved providers and the customer is all set. This way the router set up could include the VPN vender's configuration data.
The part of your answer that really intreged me tho was the mention of a "VPN appliance" - what's that?
Larry
The poor throughput and performance from SoCs has nothing to do with bandwidth and everything to do with real-time encryption/decryption...these SoCs are not hardware-assist in that department and thus bog down quickly. Power-wise, they are more or less on par with a Raspberry Pi in terms of compute peformance - overkill for routing, woefully underpowered for VPN.
re: a VPN appliance, I was talking about a dedicated VPN concentrator (a la Cisco), though I know a few companies did have some efforts last year to bring "VPN gateways for the masses" to market (and I haven't heard from any of them since, so I'm guessing they found it out it's a bit harder than it may appear on the surface). Even Ubiquiti's ASIC-based solutions don't hardware-offload any VPN other than IPSec.
For my purposes, I've put an Asus VivoPC with a multicore Celeron up to the task as a mini-server running Linux and SoftEther (which offers native SSL VPN, OpenVPN, SSTP, etc., etc., etc. protocolling in one stack), but even it bogs down a bit under heavy VPN workloads. The core i7 model would have been a far better choice (and have allowed for beyond-gigabit VPN tunnels), but who wants to spend over $700 for a decent VPN solution?
Rodney