Lonnie Cumberland <lon...@neenet.com> said: > Hello All, > > Well, I've been away from the list for a little while and was wondering > if someone could please bring me up to speed on the development of the > "Many-to-One" TCP progress? > > It is my understanding that in the OpenVPN 2.0 (early) Beta, that UDP > connections can be established in a many to one TAP/TUN interface, but > how about the TCP side?
TCP support for multiple-clients going through a single tun/tap interface is probably not going to be here for a while unless someone sponsors the work. The problem is that it's difficult to scale, because TCP connections require one socket per client, while UDP connections can use a single socket to talk to any number of clients. Most OSes lack an efficient API for waiting on the status of a large number of sockets. The one notable exception is Linux 2.6 which has the epoll API. Most application developers get around this limitation by using multiple threads or processes, where each thread/process waits on a single socket. But then you have the inefficiency of a large number of threads/processes and the interprocess communication overhead entailed by that. James
