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OpenVPN Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Improving VPN Performance
For those making use of OpenVPN for your virtual private network (VPN) needs, years in the making has been an 'OVPN' Linux kernel driver to enhance the performance by offloading more of the work to kernel-space.
OpenVPN is a user-space program but in development the past several years has been the OVPN kernel driver for data channel offloading to allow for more of the data channel processing to happen within kernel space. This driver has been in development for several years and today brought the eighth iteration of the patches. Benchmarks previously posted by OpenVPN Inc show the big performance uplift brought by the kernel Data Channel Offload (DCO) capabilities:
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