On Sat, 16 Apr 2005 01:25:46 -0700, Tomas Nouza wrote: > After almost a year using OpenVPN, I found there are a lot of protocols > sending big amount of small packets instead of smaller amount of bigger > packets (e.g. skype, samba/netbios, and even tcp acks ...). And OpenVPN > encapsulates each packet into openvpn packet. Those protocols cannot be > changed, but when I simultanously captured packets on Tap and eth > interface, I saw the openvpn overhead for those packets (especially > smaller than 200B) is quite high.
IIRC, this has already been discussed, and the conclusion was that combining small packets would be a feature to be built on top of OpenVPN 3.0 (when it becomes not so much a VPN application as a general-purpose userspace network stack that happens to have a VPN app bundled).
