Identity management for WireGuard

Posted Oct 19, 2022 14:36 UTC (Wed) by zoobab (guest, #9945)
In reply to: Identity management for WireGuard by Cyberax
Parent article: Identity management for WireGuard

OpenVPN sucks because context switching between user and kernel space. Wireguard has a kernel module to do this. And OpenVPN thereby consume too much CPU.

Identity management for WireGuard

Posted Oct 19, 2022 16:44 UTC (Wed) by atnot (subscriber, #124910) [Link]

OpenVPN does have an out of tree kernel module to do this: https://github.com/OpenVPN/ovpn-dco

However I think the complexity of the protocol makes it somewhat unlikely for this to land upstream any time soon when alternatives already exist.