WAP/Router for use with OpenVPN

[Bill McGonigle]

On 07/07/2009 12:54 PM, Neil Joseph Schelly wrote:
> I run my company's OpenVPN endpoint on both UDP and TCP.  I send out 
> configurations using UDP because it works in almost all circumstances, but 
> there was once, with an employee travelling somewhere in Europe, where the 
> hotel firewall/NAT didn't do anything for UDP connections.  That's the only 
> time it's ever been used and it may never be used again.  The TCP connection 
> is just too much slower to use on a regular basis.

I hit a couple of these recently, in two different hotels on the same
trip!  Both only allowed DNS and HTTP/S (most of their guests only use
wifi for facebook and porn?).  I wound up on a $45/hr Internet
connection at a nearby conference center for just long enough ($7 worth)
to setup a TCP/443 OpenVPN instance on my pfSense firewall (running on
Via C7 hardware).

I've since set up this kind of config for a couple clients with mobile
salesforces that have had similar symptoms.

At this point it seems "free wireless internet" is an insufficient
advertisement for a business traveler, and there's probably nobody you
can talk to ahead of time who can tell you what they allow. B-o-o-o-o-o-gus!

-Bill

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