[stunnel-users] Is anyone using Stunnel for tunnelling Voip?

[Errol Samuels]

Hi Peter,

> Now... stunnel should work just as well as SSH, but it also has just
> the same basic "limitation" - or, rather, design goal - stunnel is
> used only for forwarding TCP connections.  I'm not sure what your
> VoIP model is, but if it is in any way based on UDP packets flying
> around, then neither stunnel nor SSH would be of any use to you.

My VoIP model is using 10000 - 20000 udp for the media so this is the reason
I have to tunnel OpenVPN through SSH or Stunnel since I can forward my udp
traffic through OpenVPN.  

Another alternative that I am exploring is SSH or Stunnels with Socat!
http://www.zarb.org/~gc/html/udp-in-ssh-tunneling.html but I need to find
out how to forward a range of ports through it.

> With that in mind, if it's a TCP connection that you want to encrypt,
> either stunnel or SSH port forwarding should do the job just fine,
> although for "permanent" setups I would rather use stunnel, since SSH
> may have some issues with timeouts and dropped control connections
> and such.

I need to investigate if Stunnel is available as a package for OpenWRT or
DD-WRT firmware.

Thanks

Errol

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> Peter
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