> 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