Alternative to TCP OpenVPN? Cloudflare tunnel?

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  • hysteria

    Hysteria is a powerful, lightning fast and censorship resistant proxy.

  • udptunnel

    Tunnel UDP packets in a TCP connection (by rfc1036)

  • wireguard docs mention udptunnel and udp2raw, so you might want to have a look there. you could also just use an ssh tunnel or something but the former options would probably be faster since you're not double layering your encryption. ultimately though you're essentially going to need to run something that wraps UDP in TCP for the hop from your client on the TCP-only network to your server. whether it is worthwhile to mess around with this vs. just use something like openvpn that provides a built in TCP option is up to your discretion.

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  • udp2raw

    A Tunnel which Turns UDP Traffic into Encrypted UDP/FakeTCP/ICMP Traffic by using Raw Socket,helps you Bypass UDP FireWalls(or Unstable UDP Environment)

  • wireguard docs mention udptunnel and udp2raw, so you might want to have a look there. you could also just use an ssh tunnel or something but the former options would probably be faster since you're not double layering your encryption. ultimately though you're essentially going to need to run something that wraps UDP in TCP for the hop from your client on the TCP-only network to your server. whether it is worthwhile to mess around with this vs. just use something like openvpn that provides a built in TCP option is up to your discretion.

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