UDP or TCP
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I run a number of OpenVPN services for a variety of clients.
Most of them are for streaming, so I use TCP.
I have one OVPN server for FTP which I have also run on TCP, but I am re-thinking that it could perform better on UDP.
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Almost everything will run better over UDP.
http://sites.inka.de/sites/bigred/devel/tcp-tcp.html
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A good read, thanks Derelict
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Some people (including myself) are using both for various reasons.
Having a server listening on 443/TCP may help to bypass firewalls. -
That may be but for performance reasons it will suffer but might be better than it not working at all.
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@derelict said in UDP or TCP:
might be better than it not working at all.
Might be? hehehe you could say that... Kind of hard to bounce a vpn connection off a proxy with UDP.. And 1194 not always open - but pretty much given that if there is internet access 443 tcp is going to be.
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The OP asked about performing better. And that is the answer that was given. Needing to use TCP for other reasons is pretty much off-topic.
