On 6/12/07, [C]hicken [G] od <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Doesn't running another protocol within SSH slow down the connection a > notch? I ain't no networking guru but from my tech support days whenever my > users run encryption on consumer grade routers they complain about slow > connections. I usually explain to them that it's because encrypting your > connection on wireless is a trade off between security and speed.
The reason why running tunnelling protocols over SSH can be slow is that running tunnelling TCP over another TCP implementation is that over time, the error correction or retransmission for each TCP layer (for handling timeouts or if the packet was corrupted) would conflict with each other, and might cause retransmission multiple times instead of just one. The better way to do it is to tunnel your TCP protocol on a UDP protocol. Something like OpenVPN over UDP is preferred over OpenVPN over TCP or SSH tunnelling. -- Gideon N. Guillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
