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Re: New draft possibilities



>>> [...] a UDP tunnel like the TCP forwarding function.
> Doesn't the existence of OpenVPN (which does exactly this) make this
> more or less redundant?

No, because depending on what "exactly this" is, OpenVPN *doesn't* do
"exactly this".

In particular, OpenVPN cannot (normally) be set up by a nonprivileged
user to "port-forward" UDP traffic `securely' (FWVO "securely"), even
if all the port numbers involved are nonprivileged.

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