Re: application using tap/pty driver

[Stephen Hocking <stephen.hocking@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/20/05, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 12:27:20PM +0200, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
> > On a basic level, they do the same job, OTOH, openvpn is IMHO a little
> > bit more mature regarding the encryption infrastructure. Also, openvpn
> > supports transmitting the packets via TCP instead of UDP only.
> 
> Which you shouldn't use, because tunneling TCP over TCP creates a lot of
> very nasty issues.
> 
And you're quite right about that, but (and there's always a but) some
people live behind firewalls and NAT'd perversity that makes UDP
impractical. I might add that vtun also allows TCP connections.

    Stephen