Tom Eastep wrote:
> CW Möller wrote:

>> For a time I had SSH open on the firewall, and I could connect to it
>> via SAIX, so it seems to me that the return routing works for TCP if
>> not for UDP.
> 
> You are correct in a sense. With TCP, each connection creates a separate
> socket; with UDP, there is a single server socket. I'm guessing that is
> where the problem lies. Once a connection has occurred through one ISP,
> the server always responds with that server's IP address as the source.

That last bit is somewhat garbled. Hopefully this is clearer:

        Once a connection has occurred through one ISP, the OpenVPN     
        server always responds with the source IP address being the
        address of the interface to that ISP. That happens even when the
        request was received through another ISP.

You might also notice that Samba creates a separate UDP socket for each
interface that it is servicing -- there is obviously a reason that it
does that.

-Tom
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