Hi Guys,
Would there be any problem with updating the tap-windows6 to the Viscosity
patched version on an older openvpn build (e.g. 2.3.18 on Windows 10)?
Thanks,
Marvin
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 8:45 PM, Eric Thorpe <e...@sparklabs.com> wrote:
> Hi Gert,
>
> PR #47 has been submitted to tap-windows6 on github.
>
> Regards,
> Eric
>
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> On 12/04/2018 6:26 PM, Gert Doering wrote:
>
> Hi Eric,
>
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 02:25:56PM +1100, Eric Thorpe wrote:
>
> One of the Viscosity developers here. The TAP driver used by Viscosity
> is based on the OpenVPN TAP-Windows driver. We're surprised to hear of
> any performance differences, as the changes we've made are very minimal.
>
> Besides a name and version number change, the only other modification is
> a change to the reported network adapter speed, which has Windows report
> the driver as 1000 Mbit instead of 100 Mbit.
>
> This change was made not because of any actual performance gains, but
> because of user reports that certain firewall or AV software tries to
> QoS the adapter based on its reported adapter speed, which is of course
> a problem if the VPN connection is capable of more than 100 Mbit.
>
> Please find a patch file of the changes attached.
>
> I think it would make sense for us to merge that patch - for two reasons,
> one is "the change could indeed help performance in high-bandwidth
> situtions", and the more important one is "another patch to tap-windows6
> is forthcoming, and that way we can keep the version numbers aligned
> so people can know what is inside".
>
> Do you have the patch in git? If yes, could you please do the commit
> with "-s" (so the signed-off-by: line is added) and send it as regular
> git commit (git-send-email)? Alternatively a PR against tap-windows6
> on github should do as well.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> gert
>
>
>
>
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