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Re:WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion by Hello71 on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @09:56AM (#17662514)
OpenVPN is quite configurable, not as much as IPsec, but still a lot, and (from what I hear) has quite a bit of code bloat. I believe that userspace WireGuard has better performance than OpenVPN.
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Re:WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion by cm2187 on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:06AM (#17662589)
My understanding (and experience) is that OpenVPN on windows is structurally capped at about 5-10 MB/s. I was curious of how that compares to WireGuard.
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Re:WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion by neilalexander on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @10:41AM (#17662885)
Performance issues with OpenVPN on Windows arise out of the inefficiencies of the TUN/TAP driver, not the OpenVPN software itself.
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Re:WireGuard is submitted for Linux kernel inclusion by cm2187 on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @11:35AM (#17663467)
I am sure that's true, but unless there is an alternative driver I am not sure why that makes a difference.
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