[SLL] WRT54GL --> wireless to wired repeater?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 21:35 -0800, Derek Simkowiak wrote:
> Somebody else might suggest this... and I'll know *why* it's a Bad Idea. :)
> 
> 
>     I agree that the WRT54GL processor is small potatoes.  But I 
> disagree that using it for VPNs is a bad idea.

Did I not qualify it enough when I said "I'm not particularly familiar
with OpenVPN [...] [wrt54's] SUCK for ipsec throughput"?

>     I don't know what's up with Jarod's setup, but with OpenVPN I get 8x 
> faster that him, i.e., over 400K-Bytes/sec with a WRT54GL running both 
> ends of the VPN.

That's better than my ipsec numbers, sure, but that's still rather
measly throughput when you have a link still capable of 7x *that*
number. Going from being able to use 2% of my bandwidth to 16% is an
improvement, sure, but I'd like to use a bit closer to 100%, thank
you. :)

I'm sure its a fine VPN appliance for the bandwidth-challenged, I was
just pointing out that its a sub-optimal choice if you have a decent
sized pipe and want to actually use all of it.

--jarod