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General Category => General Discussion => : thefarm June 18, 2014, 01:20:35 AM

: Wanos Setup - only one single Edge
: thefarm June 18, 2014, 01:20:35 AM

Dear all,

this was a great devices. can this work on this setup

internet ---> pfsense firewall/ router ---> wanos edge --> switch --> lan

my aim to to speed up the browsing

: Re: Wanos Setup - only one single Edge
: ahenning June 18, 2014, 10:03:15 AM

Hi there,

Thanks for submitting the question. Unfortunately due to the way the devices work, two devices across a link are required, one on each side.

: Re: Wanos Setup - only one single Edge
: thefarm June 19, 2014, 12:28:34 PM

Hi there,

thanks for you reply. Upon installing in this setup we had experience an increase in the speed of browsing. the response got a little faster from the previous - same layout without WANOS after the pfsense firewall/ router.

If we will use this to our PPTP VPN server putting on both ends and connecting using RDP would this will help us to increase the speed

remote pc --> vpn --> wanos ----> internet <---- wanos --> vpn --> rdp server

: Re: Wanos Setup - only one single Edge
: ahenning June 19, 2014, 09:34:10 PM

In this scenario, not quite, for a number of reasons:

• The VPN will encapsulate the traffic in a PPTP header, which Wanos will see at IP traffic that is not TCP or UDP
• The VPN may add encryption
• RDP may add encryption

The following scenario would be better:
pc -> wanos -> vpn -> internet -> vpn -> wanos -> server

In this case if RDP encryption is disabled, an attempt can be made to dedup and compress the traffic. pfSense may need to be configured to not drop IP Protocol 108.