Bandwidth compression with WanProxy

[Juli Mallett]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Linus Gasser <list at markas-al-nour.org>wrote:

> Le 27/01/14 18:18, Alex Howe a écrit :
>
>  Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to explore the possibility of using wanproxy to compress
>> bandwidth for users with poor internet connectivity. I'd like all WAN
>> traffic to be proxy'd so performance is enhanced.
>>
>
> +1 for that - and getting Linux-support back ;)
>
> If you have a working setup, I think you could use something like Openvpn
> to tunnel all traffic through a given port - would be some kind of a
> kludge, but could work:
>
> ** client-gateway:
> - default route through openvpn-interface (tun0)
> - additional route for remote gateway through the internet-interface
> - openvpn connects to localhost:1194
> - wanproxy listens on localhost:1194 and forwards all traffic to the
> remote gateway to port 1195
>
> ** remote gateway:
> - wanproxy listens on port 1195 and forwards to localhost:1194
> - openvpn listens on port 1194 and connects to the internet
>
> did I understand wanproxy's usage correctly here?


That should work as long as the OpenVPN settings aren't using encryption
(or compression.)
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