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Re: [Openvpn-devel] Re: OpenVPN Protocol


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] Re: OpenVPN Protocol
  • From: Mark Beyer <mbeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:55:30 -0700

> The big question in my mind is whether this possibly small increase in
> performance will justify the loss of portability, and some level
> of stability and security.
> 
> James
>

Agreed. 

Is performance such a big issue anyway ?  At least for clients, Open VPN's
current user-level design is not a throughput bottleneck. And I'm not sure
it's all that bad for a gateway either.

What are you going to do with this new design that you can't do today ?

$.02
Mark Beyer