One cipher change made my PIA VPN tunnels 4–8× faster
My OpenVPN tunnels to Private Internet Access topped out around 100 Mbps. The firewall CPU was idle. Switching from AES-256-CBC to AES-256-GCM took them to 400–845 Mbps.
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Write-ups from the homelab and the day job: infrastructure, networking, security, and things I broke on purpose.
Fixing upload bufferbloat on pfSense: 130 ms to 27 ms
My upload added up to half a second of lag whenever something in the house was uploading. One FQ-CoDel limiter on pfSense brought loaded latency back to idle.