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Softether Performance is worse than OpenVPN.

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 2:37 am
by Wes_Huang
Hi all,

I follow the following blog to set up softether VPN.
http://blog.lincoln.hk/blog/2013/05/17/ ... al-bridge/

Target machine as a VPN client. ( SoC: AM3352 Memory:512MB)
Desktop as a VPN Server. (Intel I7, Memory:8GB )

I set up VPN with hardware encryption(aes-256) and I use iperf to test it's throughput . It's 64Mbits/sec.

On the other hand, I try to use OpenVPN with the following configuration.
https://wiki.debian.org/OpenVPN
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/w ... orks_Linux

I set up OpenVPN with hardware encryption(aes-256) too and use iperf to test it. The throughput is 85Mbits/sec !

It's weird, because I think softether's throughput should be better than OpenVPN.

I observed that cpu usage is 100% in these two cases.
I think that maybe I need to modify some softether configuration to improve it's encryption process.

Dose anyone have any suggestions?

Re: Softether Performance is worse than OpenVPN.

Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 8:53 am
by Wes_Huang
Does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: Softether Performance is worse than OpenVPN.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 9:20 am
by colapig
I setup few softether servers with low end PC. all of them are working well. It can easily handles 5-6 concurrent users.

Re: Softether Performance is worse than OpenVPN.

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 1:55 pm
by Mada
Something is wrong with your setup. I am getting around 700 MBits on an i5T. That is with SecureNAT.

Re: Softether Performance is worse than OpenVPN.

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:11 am
by thisjun
I think because tun is used, OpenVPN got better result.