WanProxy UDP support

Juli Mallett juli at clockworksquid.com
Wed Feb 21 15:43:50 PST 2018


Hi Steve,

Great question.  So, I would say that in general UDP is not a protocol for
which deduplication is a very helpful strategy, given the kinds of UDP
traffic that are most prevalent.  There are some protocols, particularly
ones coming out of Google, which are actually stream protocols but which
are using UDP to be able to implement their own windowing, congestion
control, acknowledgment, etc., schemes, but those often feature first-class
compression, delta compression, or deduplication support themselves, so
they're not attractive targets for WANProxy.

If the UDP traffic is VoIP, for example, or other real-time and/or small
datagram data, then a combination of packet combining and header
compression is more likely to be helpful.  In any event, with UDP the
answer is to bridge that traffic without passing it to WANProxy.  There's
simply no benefit there that I'm aware of with the mechanisms available in
the open source version of WANProxy.

Thanks,
Juli.

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 8:00 AM, Steve Garratt <stevegmob at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Can you tell me if Wanproxy supports UDP as well as TCP please?
>
> I'm interested in using WanProxy to optimise radio links and I'm not yet
> sure what kind of traffic it is going to get.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
>
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