Re: [Openvpn-users] TCP over TCP Tunnel - Packet lost

[Les M. <les...@gm...>]

On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 21:07 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:

> Recently I've found that my tunnel connection is very slow.
> I am using TCP tunnel, and try to connect to my IMAP mail
> server.
> I think it used to work OK, until recently I don't know what exactly
> happened... I don't remember when it stopped working.

You probably just have more link congestion now than when it worked
better.  There is always a problem with tunneling tcp over tcp
in that if you drop packets both the tunnel and the traffic it
carries will attempt resends at the same time.  Can you run the
tunnel over UDP instead?

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  Les Mikesell
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