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Published inMar 2017
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Eric F Crist
Eric F Crist
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Eric F Crist hails from Cottage Grove, Minnesota, and he works as a product and systems engineer for Abbott. He has a relatively wide range of professional and life experience starting from physical security and access control as a low-voltage technician into software development, system administration, and software development. Eric has been a core member of the OpenVPN community since 2008 and helps manage the open source online resources. He also wrote ssl-admin, and he is a lead for Easy-RSA, both of which help manage Certificate Authorities and chains. Eric collaborated with Jan Just Keisjer for the book, Mastering OpenVPN, in 2015, also for Packt.
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Network components on the client and server LAN can greatly affect the overall performance of the client-server connection. If the client is used in --iroute, other client connections to the distant LAN will also be affected.

Physical problems, such as improperly terminated fiber connections, poorly crimped RJ45 ends, and frayed or split Ethernet cables can introduce noise, resulting in packet transmission errors.

Network congestion from other LAN systems or uplink usage will not be readily apparent from within the VPN.

Rate limiting

Prior to around 2010, Internet connections were considered more or less a simple pipe in the consumer world. If you were given a 10 Mbps (megabits per second) connection, you were allowed to use the entirety of that connection for the duration of the month (or billing cycle). Commercial connections have long been treated in an entirely different manner.

For commercial connection, hosting, or uplink, the bandwidth has been metered in some regard for quite...

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Eric F Crist

Eric F Crist hails from Cottage Grove, Minnesota, and he works as a product and systems engineer for Abbott. He has a relatively wide range of professional and life experience starting from physical security and access control as a low-voltage technician into software development, system administration, and software development. Eric has been a core member of the OpenVPN community since 2008 and helps manage the open source online resources. He also wrote ssl-admin, and he is a lead for Easy-RSA, both of which help manage Certificate Authorities and chains. Eric collaborated with Jan Just Keisjer for the book, Mastering OpenVPN, in 2015, also for Packt.
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