Newbie question. Quick ? about port and security

[bigbudd911]

Hey! I just got my router setup with openvpn and
was simply wondering what the advantage of TCP port 443
has over UDP 1194. Both are unblocked from my ISP but I
have it set to 443. Is it any more secure than UDP 1194??

I was considering switching it to 1194 UDP to increase my speed.

Thanks for the help guys

[bigbudd911]

And I think I posted this in the wrong forum. Apologies!

[mwandelaar]

To be honest, i'm running both.
The UDP port is the most efficient for openvpn traffic as you do not need to tunnel TCP over TCP with all the problems it can encounter.

Besides a UDP-access i'm also running a TCP-port 443 openvpn-server because sometimes wifi-hotspots or other public networks only allow port 80 and 443 (and probably some pop3(s)/imap(s) ports). So in that case i can connect to my homenetwork anyway.

Regarding security i don't feel there's a lot of difference between UDP and TCP. On the other hand, when portscanning a server, open TCP-ports are very easy to find and UDP-ports are a lot harder to identify. But thats more a matter of security-by-obscurity as it's real security.