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Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN over ethernet?


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN over ethernet?
  • From: James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 00:04:27 -0600 (MDT)

On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Stefan [iso-8859-1] Lüthje wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> it is possible to implement OpenVPN over ethernet, that it works similar
> to DHCP. This would be a great thing for special links like WLAN or BNEP.
> The advantage is, that there is no overhead like IP.

Is efficiency your only interest here?  If so I would be concerned that
the improvement from tossing the IP/UDP header would be negligible
compared with the effort to code something like this.

James


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