Lonnie Cumberland <lon...@neenet.com> 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 are supposed to be many problems with trying > to use UDP over the Internet because of firewalls, bridges and the like, > or something like that. > > Also, is it true that you cannot bridge with UDP connections for road > warriors with Windows (OpenVPN) machines wishing to connect to Linux > (OpenVPN) machines and servers?
No, you should have no trouble bridging with UDP. > I could be totally off base here, but it UDP protos would work then I > could go along that route instead for my project which needs to also > scale to a (potentially maybe) very large number of road wariors. In general UDP is much more scalable when dealing with a large number of connections. James
