ovpn-dco
By openvpn
ovpn-dco-win
OpenVPN Data Channel Offload driver for Windows (by OpenVPN)
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- | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ovpn-dco
Posts with mentions or reviews of ovpn-dco.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-24.
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limitations of Openvpn CE?
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.
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Proton sharing progress on 2022 roadmap
With Linux, there's lots of stuff going on in the OpenVPN community, in particular with a kernel module to accelerate the performance. The OpenVPN 3 Linux client already supports it and the coming OpenVPN 2.6 release (currently in development) will add support for both server and client mode with data channel offload (aka DCO).
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WireGuard is now Out of Beta, Finally !!
Here is link number 1 - Previous text "DCO"
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NSA on VPN solutions: use only IKE/IPsec
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.
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[META] The aggressive removal of posts and comments that contain the letters V, P, and N
There are work in progress on a OpenVPN kernel module, which will improve OpenVPN performance considerably: https://gitlab.com/openvpn/ovpn-dco
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.
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limitations of Openvpn CE?
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.
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WireGuard is now Out of Beta, Finally !!
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.
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NSA on VPN solutions: use only IKE/IPsec
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 ovpn-dco and ovpn-dco-win you can also consider the following projects:
openvpn
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.
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.
tap-windows6 - Windows TAP driver (NDIS 6)
ics-openvpn - OpenVPN for Android
openvpn3-linux
ovpn-dco vs openvpn
ovpn-dco-win vs openvpn3
ovpn-dco vs openvpn3
ovpn-dco-win vs openvpn-gui
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ovpn-dco-win vs tap-windows6
ovpn-dco vs openvpn-gui
ovpn-dco-win vs openvpn
ovpn-dco vs ics-openvpn
ovpn-dco-win vs openvpn3-linux
ovpn-dco vs openvpn3-linux
ovpn-dco-win vs ics-openvpn