Re: [Openvpn-devel] linux openvpn development job

2009-04-27 Thread Benny Amorsen
David Sommerseth writes: > What if OpenVPN on selected platforms also provided it's own kernel driver > which would do practically the same as the upstream tun.ko modules - > except it provides a direct API which OpenVPN can utilize, to avoid the > kernel-userspace-kernel ping-pong. It seems tha

Re: [Openvpn-devel] linux openvpn development job

2009-04-27 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 04/27/2009 03:45:58 AM, Benny Amorsen wrote: It seems that OpenVPN is quite far away from the theoretical performance where kernel-userspace-kernel copying becomes an issue. Right now encryption is quite expensive, except on a few platforms with dedicated AES instructions. Dedicated encry