Bandwidth usage question

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Dr-Jon
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Bandwidth usage question

Post by Dr-Jon » Wed May 31, 2017 2:36 pm

HI, I have an OpenVPN server on my desk that connects to 2 client machines over 3G
there is a 4G router here and 2 3G routers at the other end.
My question is as i'm paying per Gb for the data connections, How much data will the vpn tunnels use. I know the data transfered across the tunnels will be included but if there were no traffic just the tunnels how much data would these use?
Thanks

TinCanTech
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Re: Bandwidth usage question

Post by TinCanTech » Wed May 31, 2017 2:45 pm

It depends on your configuration ..

See --keepalive for instance and use --dev-type tun not --dev-type tap.

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Re: Bandwidth usage question

Post by Pippin » Wed May 31, 2017 4:30 pm

Yeah, --keep-alive and also renegotiation, standard every hour.

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Re: Bandwidth usage question

Post by Dr-Jon » Thu Jun 01, 2017 1:55 pm

so Im useing dev-type tap and keep-alive. these should not account for more than a few meg a day?
or will it be more

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Re: Bandwidth usage question

Post by TinCanTech » Thu Jun 01, 2017 2:15 pm

Dr-Jon wrote:so Im useing dev-type tap
If you want lower background data usage:
TinCanTech wrote:use --dev-type tun not --dev-type tap

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