OpenVPN TCP vs UDP

[Thomas Charron]

On 7/12/07, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/12/07, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>   Huh?  Every NAT implementation I've used in the past five years has
> supported NAT of UDP.  What the heck are you using, Linux 2.0?  :)
>   The main advantage I find with TCP is that in most IWF (Idiot With
> Firewall) situations, TCP 80 is always open to everywhere.

  UDP is not bidirectional by nature.  People have used it in this
manner because a long time ago Linksys decided that in many cases they
would automagically forward inbound UDP packets based on an outbound
UDP packet triggering this temporary rule.

  But generally, most home users *ARE* IWF users.  :-)

  I have to remember IWF tho, be great to use that in the future.  lol

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-- Thomas