Re: Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router

2011-03-09 Thread Kapetanakis Giannis
> On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:40:16 -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > >> Why does using only UDP gives more security?? > He didn't say it did. > > TCP-over-TCP is the problem. > > TCP-over-UDP is less fractious. > > http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html > > True. Also it's more resilient to dos a

Re: Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router

2011-03-09 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:40:16 -0800 erikmccaskey64 wrote: > 3 - if i don't use my router - e.g.: when i'm sleeping i just turn it > off. Well that's a controversial one, yes it's said an attacker will wait to see if your online for long before attacking but it's more of a Windows type defence and

Re: Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router

2011-03-09 Thread erikmccaskey64
ohh, ok, got it! my opinion: using vpn with tcp could be good, because there could be firewalls only allowing tcp [on port e.g.: 443], if you want to vpn home from youre workplace Be Wed, 09 Mar 2011 01:11:38 -0800 Rod Whitworth C-rta On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:40:16

Re: Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router

2011-03-09 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:40:16 -0800, erikmccaskey64 wrote: >Why does using only UDP gives more security?? He didn't say it did. TCP-over-TCP is the problem. TCP-over-UDP is less fractious. http://sites.inka.de/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT CC me. I subscribed to the lis

Re: Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router

2011-03-08 Thread erikmccaskey64
Why does using only UDP gives more security?? Be Tue, 08 Mar 2011 14:04:08 -0800 Kapetanakis Giannis C-rta On 08/03/11 17:34, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > ok, i putted an OpenVPN server on port 1194 on an OpenWrt 10.03 router. > https://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xEZ

Re: Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router

2011-03-08 Thread Kapetanakis Giannis
On 08/03/11 17:34, erikmccaskey64 wrote: ok, i putted an OpenVPN server on port 1194 on an OpenWrt 10.03 router. https://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xEZTvnhT http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1138443 Questions: what could i do to increase security regarding this OpenVPN server? - i mean on server side!

Re: Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router

2011-03-08 Thread Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
On 03/08/2011 12:34 PM, erikmccaskey64 wrote: > ok, i putted an OpenVPN server on port 1194 on an OpenWrt 10.03 router. > https://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xEZTvnhT > http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1138443 > > > Questions: what could i do to increase security regarding this OpenVPN > server? - i mean

Ideas for securing OpenVPN on an OpenWrt router

2011-03-08 Thread erikmccaskey64
ok, i putted an OpenVPN server on port 1194 on an OpenWrt 10.03 router. https://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=xEZTvnhT http://pastebin.mozilla.org/1138443 Questions: what could i do to increase security regarding this OpenVPN server? - i mean on server side! 1 - i sed 's/1194/5/' the port number