Unfortunately the VPN server is Microsoft and thus I am forced to use PPTP which is GRE.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Brian J. Murrell <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:28 -0500, Graham Campbell wrote: > > > > I'm puzzled. Don't all VPN's run over IP? > > That's probably too a too broad and sweeping statement to possibly be > true, but not really important to this discussion because GRE is a > protocol that runs on IP, yes, like UDP and TCP (and ICMP, and ...) do. > > > And probably with TCP??? > > Not usually. If one is going to use a non encapsulating protocol (which > is what GRE is) one usually uses UDP as the protocols involved in TCP > (window sizing, retry algorithms, etc.) usually foul up the > effectiveness of a VPN protocol. > > b. > > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users > >
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