Throttling and SafeVPN

Dave Cramer davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Sat May 10 14:52:23 UTC 2008


On 10-May-08, at 2:37 AM, William Muriithi wrote:

> Dave,
>> Ah yes, but OpenVPN uses OpenSSL to encrypt so it looks very much  
>> like SSL
>> traffic.
>
> You are missing the point. What is happening is there are a lot of ISP
> assuming that any encrypted traffic is torrent. So irrespective what
> port you choose to use, as long as your traffic is encrypted - and
> equipments like packeteer will easily flag this - your traffic will be
> shaped.
Even port 443 ? This is what everyone uses for https ?

Dave
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