Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

["wdk@moriah" <billk@iinet.net.au>]

Congestion isn't the only reason to use TCP and a VPN.

3G smartphone network (Optus in Oz) has a large number of duplicate and dropped packets - openvpn performance over TCP is much better.  Similar case with a cheap French network while on holiday there.  This was an extreme case though with non VPN traffic very poor as well.

Otherwise use openvpn with fqdn's and not IP numbers then use ospf across them with suitable route metrics to either share or prefer a route.  Works well with dynamic IP's from my ISP so should be ok in your scenario.  You could also use openvpns route push if you dont need complex dynamic routing - this works better than ospf on bad links anyway.

BillK

On 11/02/2012, at 2:36, Michael Orlitzky <michael@orlitzky.com> wrote:

> On 02/10/12 13:05, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>> 
>> No, no, no. What I meant was running TCP and UDP *on top of* OpenVPN
>> (which uses UDP).
>> 
>> HAproxy seems to be able to perform its magic with TCP connections.
>> 
> 
> I was about to say that we use it over UDP, but... we don't. We have a
> small number of clients, maybe ten(?) that use the VPN for remote
> administration.
> 
> UDP is recommended, references[1] are easy to google. Why we're running
> it over TCP I don't know. I must have had a good reason =)
> 
> It performs fine anyway, but now I'm considering flipping it to UDP to
> see what happens. At least I'll be in the office when it breaks.
> 
> 
> 
> [1] http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
>