{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/performance-analysis-of-openvpn-on-a-consumer","title":"Performance Analysis of OpenVPN on a Consumer Grade Router","arxiv_id":"2504.19069","date":"2025-04-27","proceeding":null,"authors":["Michael J. Hall"],"abstract":"Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) offer an alternative solution using Internet Protocol (IP) tunnels to create secure, encrypted communication between geographically distant networks using a common shared medium such as the Internet. They use tunneling to establish end-to-end connectivity. OpenVPN is a cross-platform, secure, highly configurable VPN solution. Security in OpenVPN is handled by the OpenSSL cryptographic library which provides strong security over a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) using standard algorithms such as Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Blowfish, or Triple DES (3DES). The Linksys WRT54GL router is a consumer-grade router made by Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems, capable of running under Linux. The Linux-based DD-WRT open-source router firmware can run OpenVPN on the Linksys WRT54GL router. For this case study, the performance of OpenVPN is measured and analyzed using a $2^{k-p}$ fractional factorial design for 5 minus 1 factors where $k=5$ and $p=1$. The results show that the throughput is mainly limited by the encryption cipher used, and that the round-trip time (RTT) is mostly dependent on the transport protocol selected.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.19069v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.19069v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"performance-analysis-of-openvpn-on-a-consumer","repo_url":"https://github.com/mhall24/openvpn_casestudy_data","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}