What exactly will put stress on a VPN?
I, like many others, am suddenly working remotely, along with the rest of my company. My employer has a VPN for remote workers, but it's swamped with all the newly remote employees. Therefore, I'd like to know what will (and won't) put unneeded strain on the VPN. Obviously, downloading a file or running an SSH session to a server within my company's private network will put traffic across the VPN. If I'm streaming music on Spotify as I work, from the same computer I'm sshed in on, will that put more traffic across the VPN? Will (public) web browsing do so?
Or does this all depend on how the VPN is configured?
Posted Apr 1, 2020, 5:25 PM UTC
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Encryption takes processing so the more data sent the more processing required along with the additional data overhead. Typically, you don't want to send all traffic through the VPN, as that is inefficient and unnecessary. Does streaming music need to be encrypted? No. So split tunneling is normally done to avoid this.
Any good tutorials you recommend for this?
No. It's highly dependent on the hardware/firmware/software in use though, as well as IT policy, so there's no one tutorial that will work for all situations.