Re: New draft possibilities

[Ben Laurie <ben%algroup.co.uk@localhost>]

Peter Gutmann wrote:
> 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).

And there's DTLS.