ics-openvpn VS ovpn-dco-win

Compare ics-openvpn vs ovpn-dco-win and see what are their differences.

ics-openvpn

OpenVPN for Android (by schwabe)

ovpn-dco-win

OpenVPN Data Channel Offload driver for Windows (by OpenVPN)
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ics-openvpn ovpn-dco-win
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8.1 4.9
4 months ago 10 days ago
C C++
- MIT License
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ics-openvpn

Posts with mentions or reviews of ics-openvpn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-20.

ovpn-dco-win

Posts with mentions or reviews of ovpn-dco-win. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-24.
  • limitations of Openvpn CE?
    9 projects | /r/OpenVPN | 24 Jun 2022
    We also back several OpenVPN related drivers, such as tap-windows6 driver, ovpn-dco-win driver, ovpn-dco linux kernel module. The tap-windows6 driver is the old Windows driver, which gives a pretty basic tun/tap interface. The DCO drivers are the next generation drivers, where more of the cryptographic operations are moved into the OS kernel instead of happening inside the OpenVPN Core components; which has the potential to improve the tunnel performance.
  • WireGuard is now Out of Beta, Finally !!
    3 projects | /r/ProtonVPN | 7 Oct 2021
    My point is ... if the OpenVPN server is correctly configured, it can perform quite well compared against its competitors. If you're running Linux, the openvpn3-linux client also supports DCO (OpenVPN kernel data-channel off-loading) now. There is also work happening on a Windows driver as well. How much performance boost DCO gives against ProtonVPN is unclear, but against OpenVPN Cloud (which also has kernel acceleration on the server side) it can improve the performance if your network link to the OpenVPN Cloud servers is good enough. OpenVPN 2.6 will come with DCO support for both client and server side too.
  • NSA on VPN solutions: use only IKE/IPsec
    2 projects | /r/OpenVPN | 30 Sep 2021
    All that said, with the work being done in OpenVPN with the Data Channel Offload (DCO), it would probably be easier to get hardware support. The DCO implementations (ovpn-dco, ovpn-dco-win) offloads the data channel crypto operations to the virtual network driver, so the encryption/decryption/packet authentication happens entirely in the kernel space - which results in a noticeable performance boost. The tasks these DCO drivers does should be possible to more easily implement inside some dedicated hardware. But it won't be cheap.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ics-openvpn and ovpn-dco-win you can also consider the following projects:

android-app - Official ProtonVPN Android app

GoodbyeDPI - GoodbyeDPI — Deep Packet Inspection circumvention utility (for Windows)

Gear-VPN - A VPN client for Android based on OpenVPN made with Jetpack Compose.

openvpn3 - OpenVPN 3 is a C++ class library that implements the functionality of an OpenVPN client, and is protocol-compatible with the OpenVPN 2.x branch.

KISS - Lightning fast, open-source, < 250kb Android launcher

mupdf - mirrored from git://git.ghostscript.com/mupdf.git

NekoX - A third-party Telegram android app.

notes-android - ✎ Android client for Nextcloud Notes app.

linux-cli-community - Linux command-line client for ProtonVPN. Written in Python.

openvpn-gui - OpenVPN GUI is a graphical frontend for OpenVPN running on Windows 7 / 8 / 10. It creates an icon in the notification area from which you can control OpenVPN to start/stop your VPN tunnels, view the log and do other useful things.

peertube-android - Thorium, a PeerTube Android Client

shadowsocks-android - A shadowsocks client for Android