It’s a long standing request, and shouldn’t be a lot of work.
i’m need this feature too.
Anyone knows anything about this? Will udp support be included in upcoming releases?
Maybe some from Mikrotik can tell us?
Chris
Bump… Can we please get an update on UDP support for OpenVPN? TCP over TCP simply does not work. Normis or Uldis an update please?
I’m waiting for this as well.
I would’ve loved it to be able to use a standard OpenVPN configuration file.
The drawbacks with the current OpenVPN server/client are:
- No UDP support
- Unable to host a server without a username/password combination
- Unable to push routes to clients
+1!!!
I really need this feature. Using TCP to encapsulate TCP gives me a very low throughput… and it’s a shame, because it’s really easy to set up an OpenVPN tunnel (well, at least when you’ve done it ten times and you discover how RouterOS like’s it’s certs and some other tricky detalis).
Mikrotik, what’s holding you from implementing UDP for OpenVPN? At least it would be nice to know why it is taking so long…
Thank you!
+1 on this.
I have a few tunnels setup, and as they all have dynamic client side IP’s I basically have no choice but to use OpenVPN.
Which means I have to use TCP mode and the performance is poor.
Do you need people to test this? Is there beta/alpha code? Is it just as simple as not that many people need it?
Help!
Daniel
I really need this feature too! Stuck using OpenVPN due to dynamic IP’s on client locations/sites.
Will we get this soon?
I think it would be nice to add your vote here:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/MikroTik_RouterOS/v4/Feature_Requests
Probably someone should add all the votes from the v3 feature requests page which are not done yet:
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/MikroTik_RouterOS/v3/Feature_Requests
Regards
I need it very much . a mikrotik guy comment please ?
When will support udp ?
Udp i faster than tcp , but more dificult to bound than tcp
What?
I run OpenVPN on a separate linux box, and it rocks. Performance, features, multiplatfom ease of use are quite good.
Im currently at 72 Ovpn tunnels and would REALLY like full ovpn support. LZO compression, UDP support, etc.
Ill be at over 100 Ovpn tunnels in about a month, all with MT hardware. Please Please Please!
Hi,
@roadracer96 Have you been able to measure the bandwidth that you are loosing by using tcp instead of the native bandwidth of your link? In my tests I loose at least 50% of the links native bandwidth (and there aren’t any lost packets nor high latency).
@everyone Has someone played with MTU’s to try to increase the OpenVPN links performance?
Thank you!
Is there any comparison between OpenVPN vs EOIP ?
The tunnels are fast and I dont think I am losing a lot of bandwidth. One tunnel was pushing about 5mbit for 3 days straight doing DFS replication to my office from a colocation and the speed on the LAN side of the tunnel was about the same. But this was over a wire, not over wireless, so full duplex, etc, etc.
BUT. UDP is less expensive in pretty much every aspect.
EDIT: OpenVPN is an encrypted, certificate based VPN. EOIP is not. No comparison…
I was always using OpenVPN on my Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT firmware, which allowed me to open PPPoE client connections via the OpenVPN tunnel. Since I got a RB750, I’ve changed over to PPTP VPN, which doesn’t allow me to open PPPoE connections over the VPN tunnel.
I’ve used the TCP based OpenVPN connection over a Wireless network, and the throughput was reasonably decent, considering the TCP overhead.
I would really be grateful if OpenVPN features would be expanded in ROS…
Vote +1