My first post on the forums so forgive me if I miss some guidelines.
I’d like to create a setup of OpenVPN tunnels with a central location and distant units (over WAN), which I’d like to manage centrally.
Which RouterBoard hardware do you recommend for the base server, which would serve up to 50 clients?
And which RouterBoard hardware do you recommend for the clients? On the client side I’d like the router to make remote clients accessible to the base server by pushing appropriate routes.
EDIT: Upon finding that OpenVPN implementation doesn’t support UDP and LZO compression you are also welcome to suggest other technologies for VPN using MikroTik and RouterBoard.
So you basically going to build a VPN network with a central VPN- concentrator, right? You can use all RouterOS devices for that propose. The central device obviously need to be more power full than the clients. To give a good suggestion about the hardware you need to tell us what throughput is wanted.
The required throughput is not large per client. Of course each client needs a stable connection but the most that runs through each client would be RDP connection and every 5-10 minutes email check. This scales a little bit over 40 clients but currently I have no idea what the requirements would be. I’d be happier to know which device can fulfill such requirements easily and then perhaps double it’s capacity.
Does IPSec require static IP addresses on both ends?