Re: [Openvpn-devel] TCP-over-TCP (was: Multi-channel VPN)

2003-04-24 Thread James Yonan
Aaron Sethman said: > > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, James Yonan wrote: > > Actually, I was thinking more about the situation where people are forced to > > tunnel IP over TCP, for whatever reason, when UDP is not an option. Since > > IP > > is designed to transit over an unreliable physical layer, wh

Re: [Openvpn-devel] TCP-over-TCP (was: Multi-channel VPN)

2003-04-24 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, James Yonan wrote: > Actually, I was thinking more about the situation where people are forced to > tunnel IP over TCP, for whatever reason, when UDP is not an option. Since IP > is designed to transit over an unreliable physical layer, when you tunnel it > over TCP (a la vpn

Re: [Openvpn-devel] TCP-over-TCP (was: Multi-channel VPN)

2003-04-24 Thread Aaron Sethman
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, James Yonan wrote: > Actually, I was thinking more about the situation where people are forced to > tunnel IP over TCP, for whatever reason, when UDP is not an option. Since IP > is designed to transit over an unreliable physical layer, when you tunnel it > over TCP (a la vpnd

Re: [Openvpn-devel] TCP-over-TCP (was: Multi-channel VPN)

2003-04-24 Thread James Yonan
Aaron Sethman said: > > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, James Yonan wrote: > > > > > I wonder if one could build a better tcp-over-tcp by doing some > > > intelligent > > > packet filtering on the higher level tcp connection, such as filtering out > >

Re: [Openvpn-devel] TCP-over-TCP (was: Multi-channel VPN)

2003-04-23 Thread Aaron Sethman
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Matthias Andree wrote: > On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, James Yonan wrote: > > > I wonder if one could build a better tcp-over-tcp by doing some intelligent > > packet filtering on the higher level tcp connection, such as filtering out > > retransmits and fudging return ACKs -- essenti

Re: [Openvpn-devel] TCP-over-TCP (was: Multi-channel VPN)

2003-04-23 Thread Matthias Andree
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, James Yonan wrote: > I wonder if one could build a better tcp-over-tcp by doing some intelligent > packet filtering on the higher level tcp connection, such as filtering out > retransmits and fudging return ACKs -- essentially removing those elements of > the TCP protocol whic

Re: [Openvpn-devel] TCP-over-TCP (was: Multi-channel VPN)

2003-04-22 Thread James Yonan
Matthias Andree said: > On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Aaron Sethman wrote: > > > I'm not necessarly sure it belongs in OpenVPN, but then again, I can see > > the advantages to automatically failover to other links. Perhaps > > abstracting things out in the code a bit that it would be possible to have >

[Openvpn-devel] TCP-over-TCP (was: Multi-channel VPN)

2003-04-22 Thread Matthias Andree
On Sat, 19 Apr 2003, Aaron Sethman wrote: > I'm not necessarly sure it belongs in OpenVPN, but then again, I can see > the advantages to automatically failover to other links. Perhaps > abstracting things out in the code a bit that it would be possible to have > multiple methods of sending data o