Comcast Bussiness Class and GRE Tunnels

Wed Jul 27 10:15:16 UTC 2011

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:30:36PM +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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

WT*F*?  I've never understood the appeal of Microtik, and now I understand
it even less.

- Matt