Hi,
On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 05:55:30PM -0400, Sina Rabbani wrote:
> If true, does that make UDP OpenVPN tunnel unreliable?
That depends on what you mean by "unreliable".
What Gregory already said: IP transport is by nature "unreliable", so
upper layer protocols have learnt to deal with it -
The short answer is:
If the traffic going "inside" the tunnel is UDP based, it's already built to
handle packet loss.
If the traffic going "inside" the tunnel is TCP based, it's going to be handled
by the TCP connection that's encapsulated by the tunnel. [i.e. The TCP
connection will
Hi,
How does OpenVPN handle UDP's unreliability?
If I read this correctly, "control channel messages" and not the "data
channel" are using the reliability layer:
https://github.com/OpenVPN/openvpn/blob/master/doc/doxygen/doc_reliable.h#L40
If true, does that make UDP OpenVPN tunnel unreliable?
