[asterisk-users] OpenVPN on phones?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

Alex Balashov wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 03:19 PM, Olle E. Johansson wrote:
> 
>> Anyway - is there someone out there that know the behaviour of
>> OpenVPN in regardsof retransmits and such? A VPN that retransmits
>> will at some point hurt you if you transmit media over it, especially
>> if you scale it up.
> 
> Don't know the nuances, but the thresholds are definitely configurable.

By default OpenVPN runs over UDP, and does not provide any guarantee of
delivery at all. It acts just like a datagram delivery protocol, like
Ethernet or any other layer 1 protocol.

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