[gentoo-user] Transparent network compression

[gentoo-user] Transparent network compression

[Florian Philipp]

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Hi list!

Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host?

My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline 
adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has 
got an option for using lzo but I would like to have a solution for NFS, too. 
With a bandwidth like this even bzip2 could be useful.

Thanks in advance!

Florian Philipp

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[gentoo-user] Re: Transparent network compression

[Remy Blank]

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Florian Philipp wrote:
> Is it possible to compress all the network traffic to one host?
> 
> My problem is: One of my PCs is connected to my network via an old powerline 
> adapter (first generation on the consumer market, 1 or 2 MBit). Distcc has 
> got an option for using lzo but I would like to have a solution for NFS, too. 
> With a bandwidth like this even bzip2 could be useful.

You could tunnel all your traffic through an OpenVPN [1] link. OpenVPN
can be configured to compress all packets using LZO (--comp-lzo). And if
encryption overhead is too high, you could have it use a null cipher
(--cipher null).

-- Remy

[1] http://www.openvpn.net/


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