Hi,

On Fri, Sep 04, 2026 at 09:09:13AM -0400, Jon Chiappetta wrote:
> - read from interface
> - encrypted buffer data
> - send to socket
> - recv from socket
> - decrypt buffer data
> - write to interface

For data packets, this all happens at kernel level.

Control channel packets (= TLS handling, user auth, all the stuff you do
not want to do in kernel) are handed to the userland process.

gert
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