On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Bill McGonigle <b...@bfccomputing.com>wrote:
> On 07/07/2009 12:54 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote: > > I run my company's OpenVPN endpoint on both UDP and TCP. I send out > > configurations using UDP because it works in almost all circumstances, > but > > there was once, with an employee travelling somewhere in Europe, where > the > > hotel firewall/NAT didn't do anything for UDP connections. That's the > only > > time it's ever been used and it may never be used again. The TCP > connection > > is just too much slower to use on a regular basis. > > I hit a couple of these recently, in two different hotels on the same > trip! Both only allowed DNS and HTTP/S (most of their guests only use > wifi for facebook and porn?). I wound up on a $45/hr Internet > connection at a nearby conference center for just long enough ($7 worth) > to setup a TCP/443 OpenVPN instance on my pfSense firewall (running on > Via C7 hardware). > FWIW, there are adaptations to tunnel SSH over HTTP (corkscrew), DNS, ICMP among other things. Corkscrew isn't too bad.
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