[139875] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VPN over slow Internet connections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wil Schultz)
Thu Apr 21 15:46:14 2011
From: Wil Schultz <wschultz@bsdboy.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DB08151.8000607@mompl.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:46:03 -0700
To: Jeroen van Aart <jeroen@mompl.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 21, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote:
> Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>> Well, 33.6k is a Bad Idea right there. :) But if you're stuck with =
that
>> for technical reasons, but need a VPN for security reasons, it won't
>> be all *that* much worse, unless you're doing a lot of SSH or similar
>=20
> I would think so too. When I first moved to the States I lived in =
rural Oregon and used an (attempted) always on dialup for years. I could =
mostly get a steady 56K connection, except when there was a nest of mice =
in the local phone exchange/switch/box thing (whatever they're called) =
or a tree fell in the wrong place or it rained for weeks. Then it would =
be a tad slower (the fallen tree would only cause an electricity outage =
;-) the phoneline often was still fine), but never go below 33.6K. =
Though the mice were annoying in causing a disconnect every half hour or =
so.
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> Anyways, at 56K speeds 3/4 of the time and I could stream low =
bandwidth real audio radio and do some browsing all at the same time =
whilst chatting. So going from that I would say that a 33.6K connection =
dedicated to just VPN connectivity would work fine for things such as =
sql queries.
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> Greetings,
> Jeroen
>=20
> --=20
> http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
> http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html
>=20
Assuming the slow connection, I would guess there would be some packet =
loss to go along with it which could make not an ideal situation even =
worse.
We've all done things we're not proud of because of business need, from =
the outside looking in I would definitely hammer home very low =
expectations before rolling it out. If they think it's going to be great =
they've got another thing coming, if they expect it to be barely usable =
they just might be pleasantly surprised.=20
-wil=
