Does this modified openvpn support all the same features/options as the stable release version?
Thanks, Neal On Fri, Feb 4, 2022 at 5:04 AM David Sommerseth <d...@eurephia.org> wrote: > On 03/02/2022 05:52, Demi Marie Obenour wrote: > > On 2/2/22 13:34, David Sommerseth wrote: > >> > >> Hi, > >> > >> An OpenVPN colleague of me, Antonio Quartulli (on Cc), has been working > >> on a kernel acceleration module for OpenVPN for quite some time. We > >> call this OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (DCO). This moves the tunnelled > >> network traffic to a new kernel module (ovpn-dco) and keep only the > >> control channel (authentication, VPN IP configuration, etc) in > >> user-space. This is gives a noticeable improved performance. > > > > Do you plan to submit this kernel module to upstream Linux? Fedora > > does not ship out-of-tree kernel modules last I checked. > > Yes, we do plan for that. But before we're ready to do so, we'd like to > see more broader testing of this module. This comes in addition to have > OpenVPN packages available with DCO support. > > We use Fedora Copr for the time being to make the availability of both > kmod-ovpn-dco and OpenVPN builds with DCO support more > easily available > for more testers. > > These builds and repository is currently fully supported by the OpenVPN > community, with the standard clause that this is development builds > which may contain bugs and not necessarily be as stable as ordinary > releases. > > > Going forward ... > > We plan to release OpenVPN 2.6 later this year, which will be DCO > capable. This will be available in the existing Fedora repositories, as > well as Fedora Copr for releases (like EPEL 7 and 8) where we cannot > upgrade easily. > > As long as RHEL-9 is in Beta, we are considering to move to OpenVPN 2.6 > in the EPEL-9 repositories. Depending on the community testing of the > Copr repos announced now, we might also provide similar snapshots in > default EPEL-9 repos instead of OpenVPN 2.5.z until OpenVPN 2.6 is > officially released. > > Basically: If you want to see OpenVPN 2.6 in EPEL-9, please test our > EPEL-9 builds in the openvpn-dco Copr repo and provide feedback ASAP. > If we get confidence t > his works well, we will start preparing for > pre-releases in EPEL-9 sooner than later. > > > OpenVPN 2.6 and the openvpn-dco Copr builds should also work even if > kmod-ovpn-dco is not available. And we will provide and support the > kmod-ovpn-dco via the openvpn3 Copr repository until we can get it into > the far more common Fedora repositories. > > > -- > kind regards, > > David Sommerseth > OpenVPN Inc > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure > -- *Those who don't understand recursion are doomed to repeat it*
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