From: Denis Vlasenko <vda@...216...>
Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] Re: [PATCH - 1 of 4]  Set source address for UDP packets from multihomed server
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Date: Tue Jul 27 05:07:09 2004
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To: James Yonan <jim@...41...>, Neil Brown <neilb@...253...>
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On Tuesday 27 July 2004 11:25, James Yonan wrote:
> Neil,
>
> Thanks for the patches... here are some comments:
>
> * You've obviously put a lot of effort into understanding the code to wri=
te
> this patch.  But did you consider any alternative approaches, such as
> starting multiple OpenVPN instances and binding each to a separate local
> interface?

This will fail for dynamic ip addresses and dynamic interfaces.
Also it will incur memory and context switch time penalties.
Just imagine a host with 100 ip addresses.
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vda