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Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

  • From: Alex Balashov
  • Date: Wed Oct 21 19:37:29 2009

OpenVPN is ideal. It functions purely over application-level UDP transport (IP-IP) instead of using GRE/IPSec/other encapsulation protocols that could potentially be blocked by a protocol filter on a router. Route that traffic to a server outside of China and NAT it out to the rest of the Internet.

The default port is UDP 1194, but can easily be changed.

Anyone who wants to block it risks blocking any applications that use UDP in general, such as online games, Skype, etc.

It is precisely because the traffic has no signature distinguishable from normal application traffic - aside from the fact that the payload is encrypted - that it makes a good fit.

It's also open-source and free.

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Alex Balashov - Principal
Evariste Systems
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