Anyone here using a SOCKS server? I'm using ss5 but there seems to be a strange disconnect issue with it and openvpn. While I'm trying to figure out whether ss5 is at fault, or openvpn, I'd like to try a different SOCKS server. Could you recommend one that works well on CentOS?
Thanks.
Anyone here using a SOCKS server? I'm using ss5 but there seems to be a strange disconnect issue with it and openvpn. While I'm trying to figure out whether ss5 is at fault, or openvpn, I'd like to try a different SOCKS server. Could you recommend one that works well on CentOS?
If you can ssh to a remote machine then you can use the "-D" flag to make ssh act as a SOCKS server. That should, at least, get you something to test against.
On 01/09/2012 02:24 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
Anyone here using a SOCKS server? I'm using ss5 but there seems to be a strange disconnect issue with it and openvpn. While I'm trying to figure out whether ss5 is at fault, or openvpn, I'd like to try a different SOCKS server. Could you recommend one that works well on CentOS?
If you can ssh to a remote machine then you can use the "-D" flag to make ssh act as a SOCKS server. That should, at least, get you something to test against.
Doesn't work at all. Perhaps openssh is only a SOCKS server for TCP protocols? OpenVPN normally uses UDP.
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 6:51 PM, John R Pierce pierce@hogranch.com wrote:
On 01/09/12 4:34 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
OpenVPN normally uses UDP.
it does? I thought OpenVPN used ssl/tls as the transport, which is most decidedly TCP. I'll admit I haven't used it in quite a long time
OpenVPN can run over either tcp or udp. The default is udp - and it works better.
On 01/09/2012 04:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 01/09/12 4:34 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
OpenVPN normally uses UDP.
it does? I thought OpenVPN used ssl/tls as the transport, which is most decidedly TCP. I'll admit I haven't used it in quite a long time
openssl is used for encryption, but the transport protocol is UDP.
Anyway, I'm running dante-server now, and it seems to exhibit no problem at all with OpenVPN. Fingers crossed...
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Florin Andrei florin@andrei.myip.org wrote:
On 01/09/2012 04:51 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 01/09/12 4:34 PM, Florin Andrei wrote:
OpenVPN normally uses UDP.
it does? I thought OpenVPN used ssl/tls as the transport, which is most decidedly TCP. I'll admit I haven't used it in quite a long time
openssl is used for encryption, but the transport protocol is UDP.
Anyway, I'm running dante-server now, and it seems to exhibit no problem at all with OpenVPN. Fingers crossed...
If it is your server you could just route the udp packets (using iptables to NAT if needed), unless you need access control or logging from the socks service.
On 01/09/2012 05:20 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
If it is your server you could just route the udp packets (using iptables to NAT if needed), unless you need access control or logging from the socks service.
The exit point is a few hops away, it's different from the default exit point, and I don't control the routers in between. I must use a proxy. Fortunately, OpenVPN seems to work well with dante-server. Too bad dante-server is not in EPEL, but RPM packages are available online.
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