On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, James Yonan wrote: > I'm forwarding this discussion of an interesting feature request. Namely, > could (and should) OpenVPN have a channel bonding capability, where more than > one UDP connection over different paths is used to connect two peers, and > OpenVPN does channel bonding, load balancing, and failover among the > connections? Or does this function not belong in OpenVPN since it is > functionally distinct from the role of network security and tunneling and > could be implemented as a module or driver apart from OpenVPN?
I'm not necessarly sure it belongs in OpenVPN, but then again, I can see the advantages to automatically failover to other links. Perhaps abstracting things out in the code a bit that it would be possible to have multiple methods of sending data out to the world, perhaps even non-ip methods. Or even implementing something as tunnelling over TCP(I do know the reasons why you don't want to do this, but in some cases you don't have a choice, and are willing to eat the performance loss). Regards, Aaron
