[Openvpn-devel] Many to one TCP question

2004-04-25 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Hello All, Well, I've been away from the list for a little while and was wondering if someone could please bring me up to speed on the development of the "Many-to-One" TCP progress? It is my understanding that in the OpenVPN 2.0 (early) Beta, that UDP connections can be established in a many

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Many to one TCP question

2004-04-27 Thread Stephan Scholz
Hi Lonnie, this could already be done with 1.6 by some tweaks and using inetd. I have tried it and it worked fine. Disadvantage: one OpenVPN process per user is created -> memory consumption. In the FAQ on the openvpn homepage, there is a short howto: "How can I implement OpenVPN as a classic, f

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Many to one TCP question

2004-04-27 Thread lonnie
ng on this. Thanks again, Lonnie - Original Message - From: Stephan Scholz To: Lonnie Cumberland Cc: Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:12:32 +0200 Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] Many to one TCP question Hi Lonnie, this could already be done with 1.6 by some

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Many to one TCP question

2004-04-27 Thread James Yonan
Lonnie Cumberland said: > Hello All, > > Well, I've been away from the list for a little while and was wondering > if someone could please bring me up to speed on the development of the > "Many-to-One" TCP progress? > > It is my understanding that in the OpenVPN 2.0 (early) Beta, that UDP >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Many to one TCP question

2004-04-27 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Thanks for replying to my posting on this matter as I am still trying to get clear understanding as to the advantages/disadvantages of using TCP/UDP protocals. My guess is that most things are done via TCP over the Internet and I seem to remember that there are supposed to be many problems wit

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Many to one TCP question

2004-04-27 Thread Mike Auty
Hi, I have never found any problems using UDP as the tunnel mechanism over the internet. I was under the impression that UDP packets were less likely to be blocked at the firewall than TCP, since historically it has been under utilized. These days with streaming video/media where speed is m

Re: [Openvpn-devel] Many to one TCP question

2004-04-27 Thread James Yonan
Lonnie Cumberland said: > Thanks for replying to my posting on this matter as I am still trying to > get clear understanding as to the advantages/disadvantages of using > TCP/UDP protocals. > > My guess is that most things are done via TCP over the Internet and I > seem to remember that there