Comcast Bussiness Class and GRE Tunnels

Wed Jul 27 09:30:36 UTC 2011

 On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:23:33 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> 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
 On Linux, yes, it is by default configuration is UDP, but in current 
 case , on Mikrotik, it is working _only_ in TCP mode, and has few more 
 limitations.
 http://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=20537


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 Denys Fedoryshchenko
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