Comcast Bussiness Class and GRE Tunnels

Wed Jul 27 09:23:33 UTC 2011

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:17:16PM +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> I can recommend you to try to use openvpn, if you are "Mikrotik
> only". At least it doesn't have fragmentation issues, as
> IPIP/GRE/PPTP has, and also it will run smoothly over NAT/SPI. Cons,
> that it is a bit more laggy, because it runs over TCP.

Au contraire, OpenVPN only runs over TCP if you explicitly tell it to;
default configuration, and widespread practice, is to run it over UDP.

- Matt