Re: It's been some time since I've looked at the OVPN source code but I found some cool TUN interface flags recently!

Gert Doering <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.openvpn.devel
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Hi,

On Thu, Sep 03, 2026 at 05:37:54PM -0400, Jon Chiappetta via Openvpn-devel wrote:
> I don't know the full history here yet and am still learning but
> was this option ever considered to be implemented for OpenVPN?

The canoncial answer for "make things complicated but fast" on Linux is
DCO - there is nothing you can do to in userland process to get the speeds
you can get with DCO (except go full DPDK), so the focus for userland is
more on "avoid platform-specific complications" nowadays.

gert

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Gert Doering - Munich, Germany                             [email protected]

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