On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 11:47:44AM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> Akshay Lamba wrote:
> > I'm not much of a user of skype but from what you tell me, an
> > alternative would be a pptp vpn connection to the server rather than an
> > OpenVPN based connection. There's no split tunneling in pptp, hence the
> > minute the connection is established, all packets are forced over the
> > vpn connectivity and hence the proxy connection. The downside - you
> > can't simultaneously use the browser to go directly to the net (you can
> > however go over the vpn).
>
> Interesting. I guess pptp establishes a default route? That could be got
> around pretty easily with a
> bit of routing table bashing in any case. I prefer OpenVPN mainly as it can
> be squirted through
> almost any open tcp or udp port.
PPTP is the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol. In all cases I've seen so
far it will transport PPP packets to another machine. So whatever your
pppd (that's the thing your grandfather is talking about when he speaks
of "connecting to the Internet") does will PPTP do.
There's a bit more to PPTP, but apart from the TCP connections it uses
it is unrelated to routing.
BTW: I just joined the club of Etisalat users and I'm wondering... how
can you live like that??? ;)
@Brad: Do you have any way of classifying the packets coming from Skype?
I mean something like a port number or maybe the host they're coming
from? Then you could set up a second routing table with "ip rule ..."
and then mark IP packets in the mangle table to use that table.
Dirk.
--
The problem is that the more generic and infinitely flexible your [user
interface] is, the more similar it is to a programming language. Lisp is not a
good user interface.
(Havoc Pennington)
