linux-kernel - Re: [RFC 1/1] net: introduce OpenVPN Data Channel Offload (ovpn-dco)

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Message-ID: <20220803091942.0e388f5b@hermes.local>
Date:   Wed, 3 Aug 2022 09:19:42 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...nvpn.net>
Cc:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] net: introduce OpenVPN Data Channel Offload
 (ovpn-dco)

On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 17:48:45 +0200
Antonio Quartulli <antonio@...nvpn.net> wrote:

> There must have been some confusion - sorry about that.
> 
> The repository I linked in my previous email is this very same driver 
> packaged as "out-of-tree" module (i.e. for people running a kernel that 
> does not yet ship ovpn-dco) and contains some compat wrapper.
> 
> 
> The driver I have submitted to the list is 100% standalone and does not 
> contain any compat code.
> 
> 
> The only extra component required to do something useful with this 
> driver is the OpenVPN software in userspace.


Good to here thanks.
I wonder if there is any chance of having multiple VPN projects
using same infrastructure. There seems to be some parallel effort
in L2TP, OpenVPN, etc.