sslh to the rescue ? https://github.com/yrutschle/sslh
Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Wednesday, March 18th, 2026 at 11:57 PM, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote: > I have long wanted to listen on two ports, one UDP and one (different) > TCP, so that clients could have a better chance of connecting > > I find that many wifi networks block lots of things, including 1194/udp. > Apparently the people who configure firewalls think people using > facebook etc. is ok, and nerd protocols like openvpn, xmpp and matrix > are harmful, so it seems best to blend in :-( > > > I saw in the 2.7.0 release notes one could do this, but couldn't figure > it out. Finally I found this blog post: > > https://www.willifix.net/blog/openvpn-2-7-multisocket-howto > > which says that instead of "udp" and "port 1194" in the config, one > should instead have (with my changing the tcp port to be different): > > local 0.0.0.0 1200 udp > local 0.0.0.0 1300 tcp > > I have a configuration with a specific listen address, and different > ports on udp and tcp, and it seems to work. > > > (It would be great if someone could do a blog post or docs change to > explain how to configure nginx to function as a proxy to reach an > openvpn server on the same host, so that the connection from the client > to the server would just be on 443/tcp. Critically, this should work > without interfering with the web server, so no remapping /.) > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openvpn-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users > _______________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users
