Re: [Ocf-linux-users] OpenVPN Speed improvement

[Andreas S. <a.s...@go...>]

Hi,

I found out that the connection is also very slow while using no
encryption. I have to investigate this problem further.

Best
Andreas

On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 1:02 AM, David McCullough
<Dav...@se...> wrote:
>
> Jivin Andreas Steinel lays it down ...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> One month ago, Nikola Ciprich asked if it's possible to enhance the
>> throughput of openVPN connections via OCF. Are there any new
>> information of known tweaks for this problem?
>>
>> I'd the problem too. Maybe it could help if someone has any idea to
>> implement it in openvpn an can explain it here.
>
> I haven't looked at it,  but does OpenVPN use openssl for it's crypto ?
> If it does just apply the ocf patch to your openssl dist before building
> and add te hconfigure options --with-cryptodev to enable OCF support.
>
> If OpenVPN  doesn't use OpenSSL then it should be easy to look at the
> openswan (pluto) patch or the cryptotest tool to see how to call into
> cryptodev to make things faster,
>
> Cheers,
> Davidm
>
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