ovpn-dco-win
OpenVPN Data Channel Offload driver for Windows (by OpenVPN)
tap-windows6
Windows TAP driver (NDIS 6) (by OpenVPN)
ovpn-dco-win | tap-windows6 | |
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3 | 3 | |
37 | 749 | |
- | 1.2% | |
4.4 | 3.1 | |
10 days ago | about 2 months ago | |
C++ | C | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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-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.
tap-windows6
Posts with mentions or reviews of tap-windows6.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-24.
- Sorry for this stupid question, but does anyone know what is this "Tom" and is it dangerous?
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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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How to convert your character to NPC mercenaries?
/skin/OemVista.inf, /skin/tap0901.cat, /skin/tap0901.sys, /skin/tapinstall.exe - These are part of OpenVPN's TAP driver which can be found here: https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ovpn-dco-win and tap-windows6 you can also consider the following projects:
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.
ovpn-dco
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.
n2n - Peer-to-peer VPN
openvpn
openvpn3-linux
ics-openvpn - OpenVPN for Android
ovpn-dco-win vs openvpn3
tap-windows6 vs ovpn-dco
ovpn-dco-win vs openvpn-gui
tap-windows6 vs n2n
ovpn-dco-win vs openvpn
tap-windows6 vs openvpn
ovpn-dco-win vs ovpn-dco
tap-windows6 vs openvpn3-linux
ovpn-dco-win vs openvpn3-linux
tap-windows6 vs openvpn3
ovpn-dco-win vs ics-openvpn
tap-windows6 vs openvpn-gui