Netdev 0x16 - Pushing OpenVPN down the stack Data Channel Offload DCO
Channel: netdevconf
Date: 2023-01-18

Speaker: Antonio Quartulli

Info: OpenVPN is a userspace software responsible for creating an encrypted tunnel between two peers (peer-to-peer mode) or a central server and multiple clients (peer-to-multipeer mode). Until now both the control and the data planes were implemented in userspace, leading to notable performance penalty.

See more: https://netdevconf.info/0x16/session.html?Pushing-OpenVPN-down-the-stack:-Data-Channel-Offload-(DCO)