Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Mick
On Friday 10 Feb 2012 04:42:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:48, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Scenario: I have a server in the cloud that needs to connect to an internal server in the office. There are 2 incoming connections into my office, ISP A and ISP B. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 10 Feb 2012 04:42:51 Pandu Poluan wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:48, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Scenario: I have a server in the cloud that needs to connect to an internal server in the office. There

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: The need: a VPN client that: + can selectively send packets fulfilling a criteria (in this case, dest= IP address of internal server)* As far

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: The need: a VPN client that: + can selectively send packets

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com mailto:michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 11, 2012 12:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On 02/10/12 11:46, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 10, 2012 10:08 PM, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Feb 11, 2012 12:42 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Feb 11, 2012 12:16 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/10/12 13:05, Pandu Poluan wrote: No, no, no. What I meant was running TCP and UDP *on top of* OpenVPN (which uses UDP). HAproxy seems to be able to perform its magic with TCP connections. I was about to say that we use it over UDP, but... we don't. We have a small number of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [120210 12:51]: [..] That's what I was talking about. Where I work, we use OpenVPN, operating in UDP mode. This is after several bad experiences using it in TCP mode. By UDP mode and TCP mode, I mean OpenVPN's connections to other OpenVPN nodes were in UDP or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [120210 12:51]: [..] That's what I was talking about. Where I work, we use OpenVPN, operating in UDP mode. This is after several bad experiences using it in TCP mode. By UDP mode and TCP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Todd Goodman
* Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [120210 13:36]: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [120210 12:51]: [..] That's what I was talking about. Where I work, we use OpenVPN, operating in UDP mode. This is after several bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Mol
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [120210 13:36]: On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote: * Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [120210 12:51]: [..] That's what I was talking about. Where I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 02/10/12 13:36, Michael Orlitzky wrote: UDP is recommended, references[1] are easy to google. Why we're running it over TCP I don't know. I must have had a good reason =) Oh my school blocks outgoing UDP. Running on TCP/443 allows me to connect from their network.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-10 Thread wdk@moriah
Congestion isn't the only reason to use TCP and a VPN. 3G smartphone network (Optus in Oz) has a large number of duplicate and dropped packets - openvpn performance over TCP is much better. Similar case with a cheap French network while on holiday there. This was an extreme case though with

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommended VPN Tunnel client?

2012-02-09 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:48, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Scenario: I have a server in the cloud that needs to connect to an internal server in the office. There are 2 incoming connections into my office, ISP A and ISP B. The primary connection is A, but if A goes down, we can use