[strongSwan] Ballpark number of users and Load balancing

[Martin Willi]

Hi,

> I'm actually using IKEv1 (pluto) as per [...] Should I expect similar
> numbers?

Definitely not. I can't give you any numbers, but pluto won't scale as
well as charon.

I'd recommend to switch to 5.0.1 and use charon, it can now handle IKEv1
and iOS connections just fine. All our future effort will go into
charon, pluto won't get much improvements.

> Or is it the case that once the tunnel is established then all traffic
> will implicitly go there (by ip address) until the tunnel is finished?

Yes.

> When you say a "dedicated load balancer" I assume you mean one which
> just forwards packets rather than one which terminates connections?

Yes.

Regards
Martin