Re: New draft possibilities

[pgut001%cs.auckland.ac.nz@localhost (Peter Gutmann)]

Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld%sun.com@localhost> writes:
>On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 12:13, Eric Brown wrote:
>> I was just wondering if there has ever been any
>> thought put to making a draft of a UDP tunnel like the
>> TCP forwarding function.
>This has been suggested before several times.  nobody has stepped forward to
>write a draft.  Are you volunteering to write one?

Doesn't the existence of OpenVPN (which does exactly this) make this more or
less redundant?  That might explain the lack of enthusiasm for it, there's
already something that does this freely available.

(If you're using UDP then you have to provide your own reliability layer, so
OpenVPN uses IPsec's UDP-based transport without all of the other IPsec
baggage.  If you wanted to do this with SSH you'd be more or less reinventing
OpenVPN).

Peter.