Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-13 Thread Marvin
>> Note: active-ftp NAT will never be merged - that is way too intrusive. Yes, we realize that. That is why we didn't pursue acceptance any further. But we still require it because we have to support a large number (currently around 3000) of legacy devices that cannot be changed away from active-

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-13 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:24:18AM -0700, Marvin wrote: > Only that here we need to run Gava's patches for active-ftp and client-nat > (submitted to openvpn-dev several years ago but not accepted). He has not > had time to port those patches to 2.4.x yet. So for now we are stuck at > 2.3.18.

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-13 Thread Marvin
HI Gert, Only that here we need to run Gava's patches for active-ftp and client-nat (submitted to openvpn-dev several years ago but not accepted). He has not had time to port those patches to 2.4.x yet. So for now we are stuck at 2.3.18. Marvin On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Gert Doering w

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-13 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 10:03:55AM -0700, Marvin wrote: > 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)? "Why?" There is nothing in 2.3.x (... that we are aware of) that makes it more suitabl

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-13 Thread Marvin
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 wrote: > Hi Gert, > > PR #47 has been submitted to tap-windows6 on github. > >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-12 Thread Eric Thorpe
Hi Gert, PR #47 has been submitted to tap-windows6 on github. Regards, Eric -- Eric Thorpe SparkLabs Developer https://www.sparklabs.com https://twitter.com/sparklabs supp...@sparklabs.com On 12/04/2018 6:26 PM, Gert Doering wrote: Hi Eric, On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 02:25:56PM +1100, Eric Thor

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-12 Thread Antonio Quartulli
On 13/04/18 04:22, Jan Just Keijser wrote: > Hi, > > On 12/04/18 16:50, Gert Doering wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:27:08AM -0400, Selva Nair wrote: > This change was made not because of any actual performance gains, but > because of user reports that certain firewall or

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver

2018-04-12 Thread Jan Just Keijser
Hi, On 12/04/18 16:50, Gert Doering wrote: Hi, On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:27:08AM -0400, Selva Nair wrote: 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 s

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver (was: Summary of the community meeting) 2018)

2018-04-12 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:27:08AM -0400, Selva Nair wrote: > > > > 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

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver (was: Summary of the community meeting) 2018)

2018-04-12 Thread Gert Doering
Hi, On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:27:08AM -0400, Selva Nair wrote: > > > 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 > >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver (was: Summary of the community meeting) 2018)

2018-04-12 Thread Selva Nair
Hi, On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 4:26 AM, 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 perfo

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Viscosity patch to TAP driver (was: Summary of the community meeting) 2018)

2018-04-12 Thread Gert Doering
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. > >