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Newbie question. Quick ? about port and security
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:21 pm
by 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
Re: Newbie question. Quick ? about port and security
Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:27 pm
by bigbudd911
And I think I posted this in the wrong forum. Apologies!
Re: Newbie question. Quick ? about port and security
Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2013 6:56 am
by 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.