[asterisk-users] OpenVPN on phones?

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Sat Feb 6 07:12:16 CST 2010


On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 10:46:49PM -0800, Dave Platt wrote:
> > Anyway - is there someone out there that know the behaviour of OpenVPN in regards of 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.
> 
> OpenVPN is well-behaved in that way.  It uses SSL over TCP for its
> "administrative" communications between peers - authentication
> and key exchange and other protocol negotiations.

Nope. It can alternatively use TCP instead of UDP, but there's generally
no such seperate "administrative" TCP communication. At least not in the
default settings.

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