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		minimax on March 28, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why TCP Over TCP Is a Bad Idea (2001) I have come across networks that filter everything but a few TCP ports (like 80 and 443) Another point scored for TCP in TCP with an SSL VPN. :-)

agwa on March 28, 2015 [–]

Only if your TCP VPN is listening on one of the allowed ports ;-)

(I do keep a TCP VPN running on port 443 ready to go for these situations, but UDP is always my first choice.)

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