Hi, On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 05:20:52PM +0200, Daniel Lando wrote: > As described in this > <https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/pull/166#issuecomment-1263600751> > comment, what I would like to know is if it's possible (and how) I could > proxy requests using nginx to multiple openvpn servers. I'm actually using > docker-compose to start the openvpn servers and also nginx is running in a > docker container.
If you are willing to live with openvpn over TCP, it might work by
using OpenVPN's --http-proxy feature - it will do a TCP connect to
nginx (or whatever) and then issue a CONNECT <targetip>:<port> command,
and then speak OpenVPN wire protocol inside that TCP connection.
OTOH, using TCP is generally suboptimal performance-wise. If this is
just for simple remote access, it's good enough, but if you want maximum
throughput (especially if there might be packet loss), go for UDP.
A *real* solution would be, of course, to use IPv6, and have distinct
IPv6 addresses for each container - so, do not go through a proxy, but
have directly reachable endpoints.
gert
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