[Openvpn-devel] Fwd: Bug#182020: openvpn needs dynamic choice on HAVE_LINUX_IF_TUN_H

2003-05-07 Thread Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta
Hi all, Sorry for the delay forwarding this email, but I don't find time to breath lately (and thus Oxygen does not make it to my brain :) Hope it's an easy one. - Forwarded message from Robert de Bath - From: Robert de Bath Reply-To: Robert de Bath , 182...@bugs.debian.org To: sub

Re: [Openvpn-devel] an idea for openvpn..

2003-05-07 Thread James Yonan
Aaron, I've found that the linux scheduler on 2.4 does a fairly good job at giving openvpn the CPU that it needs, even on a more heavily loaded system. When openvpn is forwarding tunnel packets, it is essentially i/o bound, and as such gets a priority boost. When TLS keys are being negotiated, h

[Openvpn-devel] 1.4.0 Released

2003-05-07 Thread James Yonan
Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/openvpn/ Release Notes: This release adds options for persistence of replay protection information across sessions, pass through of IPv4 TOS bits from the TUN/TAP device to the UDP link, some advanced MTU control options, moderate revamping of the build

[Openvpn-devel] an idea for openvpn..

2003-05-07 Thread Aaron Sethman
One of the things that I just thought about is, that we can probably have openvpn call sched_setscheduler() using something like SCHED_RR. This might be of more use than just renicing the process. Considering we are in a fairly performance critical path for a userspace process this would seem to