Throttling and SafeVPN

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 03:15:05PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> >Some ISPs are throthling all encrypted traffic, making VPNs work very
> >badly (annoying people trying to work remotely when at home trying to
> >reach the office).
> >
> 
> With OpenVPN, you can use almost any UDP or TCP port, which makes it 
> difficult for an ISP to identify it as a VPN.

They can still try to inspect the packet and try to determine what it
is.  After all bittorrent can encrypt its packets too and use any port
it wants, and that seems to be what they are targeting.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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