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carkev
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Open VPN

Thu Mar 07, 2019 9:36 pm

hi,
can anyone please advise if the RouterOS Level 4 router with 4 ports (MikroTik RB941-2nD-TC/UK)
can be set up with Open VPN so that I can install a VPN of my own choice?
thanks
 
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Re: Open VPN

Fri Mar 08, 2019 4:30 am

yes, rb941 can be ovpn-client or ovpn-server

more detailed information, you can visit this link
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/OpenVPN
 
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Re: Open VPN

Fri Mar 08, 2019 5:02 am

Just a short info - mikrotik supports OpenVPN only via TCP. not UDP. That has slight impact on performance.
 
carkev
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Re: Open VPN

Fri Mar 08, 2019 1:20 pm

yes, rb941 can be ovpn-client or ovpn-server

more detailed information, you can visit this link
https://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/OpenVPN
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Re: Open VPN

Fri Mar 08, 2019 3:34 pm

hi,
can anyone please advise if the RouterOS Level 4 router with 4 ports (MikroTik RB941-2nD-TC/UK)
can be set up with Open VPN so that I can install a VPN of my own choice?
thanks
Yes, it can. There are some limitations:

1) Its CPU is quite weak. Don't expect much more than 20 Mbps of OpenVpn throughput.
2) OpenVpn isn't hardware accelerated. Don't expect speeds like IPSec, that is hardware accelerated on some routers.
3) Mikrotik's OpenVpn implementation lacks UDP transport, compression and native IPv6 support.

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