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Re: Privoxy usage?
> I may be doing a horrible job of explaining the problem.
No, you're doing fine. I'm just going to explain it differently.
> IP over IP works.
> UDP over UDP works if your UDP protocol supports it.
> TCP over TCP fails. The timeout rules cannot stack properly.
You missed the two important cases ;-)
TCP over IP works (duh)
TCP over UDP works
This last case is why things like OpenVPN can do their job.
TCP over TCP is extremely inefficient; it will cause spurious
retransmissions, seriously impair the throughput you get and congest
the tor network.
(This does not apply to tunnelling over ssh, since ssh tunnels the
higher-layer data stream rather than the TCP packets.)
Juliusz