Re: Comcast Bussiness Class and GRE Tunnels

[Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys () visp net lb>]

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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