openvpn and system overhead

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at puchar.net
Fri Apr 19 16:42:05 UTC 2019


> because of unavoidable and big overhead due to constant context switching
> from user land to kernel land and back. Be it openvpn or another userland daemon.
>
> You need either some netmap-based solution or kernel-side vpn like IPsec (maybe with l2tp).

well it has to cooperate with multitude of clients like windoze, 
point&click routers etc. that's why openvpn.



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