OpenVPN VS lightway-core

Compare OpenVPN vs lightway-core and see what are their differences.

OpenVPN

OpenVPN is an open source VPN daemon (by OpenVPN)

lightway-core

Lightway Core is a modern VPN protocol by ExpressVPN, to deliver a VPN experience that’s faster, more secure, and more reliable. (by expressvpn)
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OpenVPN lightway-core
81 4
9,911 510
2.4% 2.0%
9.2 8.6
8 days ago 16 days ago
C C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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OpenVPN

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenVPN. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-02.

lightway-core

Posts with mentions or reviews of lightway-core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenVPN and lightway-core you can also consider the following projects:

tinc - a VPN daemon

SoftEther - Cross-platform multi-protocol VPN software. Pull requests are welcome. The stable version is available at https://github.com/SoftEtherVPN/SoftEtherVPN_Stable.

Pritunl - Enterprise VPN server

lightway-laser - Lightway Laser is a reference point-to-point Linux client/server implementation for Lightway Core.

ocserv

strongswan - strongSwan - IPsec-based VPN

tailscale - The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.

accel-ppp - High performance PPTP/L2TP/SSTP/PPPoE/IPoE server for Linux

openvpn3-linux - OpenVPN 3 Linux client

iodine - Official git repo for iodine dns tunnel