A Tale of Two VPNs

So, I successfully managed to broadcast a “cshnowires-psk” network from my makeshift router. However, the encryption of the tunnel between the networks is NOT making my router’s 200MHz MIPS CPU happy – in fact, it’s maxing out at around 50KB/s with a strong wind behind the back of the bits.

Looks like I’ll have to have a Real Machine (TM) to do the encrypt/decrypt of network traffic so I can see an actual 100mbit link. It’s not so bad, really; I think I’ll kill two birds with one stone and create a media center/VPN gateway box out of an old machine (A P4) using linux, mythtv, and either vpnc or openvpn.