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data compressing

Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 11:43 pm
by mobeelco
hello
is openvpn support data compressing between server and client ?
i need to compress the data to reduce use of client bandwidth to half

it's possible ?

Re: data compressing

Posted: Wed May 04, 2011 6:09 am
by janjust
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comp-lzo
you can compress the data between client and server; whether you'll get data reduction rates of 50% depends on the type of data that flows over the tunnel; plain text might be compressed up to 50% but already compressed data (JPGs, MP3, etc) will not be compressed.