WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN

[Drew Van Zandt]

Doing OpenVPN over TCP is, in my experience, human-noticeably slow in
comparison to UDP; I have seen no issues with multiple machines behind the
same NAT.

--DTVZ

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 12:03 PM, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Drew Van Zandt<drew.vanzandt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > It *is* really easy.  No idea what multiple people using it has to do
> with
> > anything, as I forward only one UDP port through my router and have many
> > people connected to my VPN.  Even the initial config is easy enough for
> > nontechnical friends to handle, now that I've written up simple
> directions.
> > Once it's set up, they don't have to do *anything*, every time they boot
> > they're on the VPN and have samba shares mapped on their Windows boxes.
> On
> > rare occasion they might have to retype their share passwords.
>
>   I had tried it initially, and in my case, had two systems which
> where behind a NAT, VPNing into the system which was behind a
> firewall, and bad things happened.  The UDP packets are mapped by
> to<=>from IP, and when multiple people are using it with the same one,
> it got all sorts of confused.
>
>  Of course, that was three years ago.  Perhaps they fixed the issue
> since then.  *shrug*  I like using it over TCP personally.
>
> --
> -- Thomas
>
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