New subject: Unable to Receive rip44 Datagram

7 Jun 2016

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  On Tue, 2016-06-07 at 13:25 -0400, James Sharp wrote:

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  /I haven't
run in to 443 "filtering", but I have run into instances where /> >/the
ISP will drop TCP connections that are active for more than a few /> >/minutes,
forcing openvpn to restart the connection. /  Chances are your issue is the same as
mine was. The CPE (router) has a
 built in watchdog timer that cuts all sockets after a few minutes. Using
 port 443 wouldn't make any difference. To the average web user this
 isn't an issue because each time a page is opened/refreshed a new socket
 is created, thus a new timer engages. The same may be said for services
 such as pop3/smtp/etc. where you're engaging a new socket each time you
 pop or send email. As long as the attachments aren't that big where you
 may exceed the watchdog's timer you'll never notice this. 
So you can never download a file that takes more than a few minutes to complete?
Terrible!  Now I understand why some companies try to enforce a "download
manager"
to download a file of a measly 30 MB.  So I can continue where I left off, yeah sure.

Well it is clear that everyone should devise their own solution for tunneling
and we should not change the global system to cater for limits that certain
users encounter.  There will always be a more severe limitation found by someone.

It is better to solve these issues locally, where you have fellow users (victims)
that can understand what is and what isn't possible.

Colocated (virtual) servers with small storage capacity are very cheap today.
Usually they are the entry level of server location, the hoster advertises
their $3.99/mo server and knows that "everyone" will upgrade to more storage
and pay a lot extra.  But for a gateway these are perfectly usable, you can
perfectly run it with 512MB RAM and 8GB disk.  Put it in the IPIP mesh with
the usual tunl0 and ampr-ripd, and then everyone in the area can make their
VPN connection to there.  Without NAT problems, and working round nasty ISPs.
(you can make a VPN over almost anything if you wish)

Rob

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