[143068] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Comcast Bussiness Class and GRE Tunnels
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Wed Jul 27 06:16:19 2011
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:15:16 +1000
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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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
