Re: How to hide the number of connections to the server?
Peter Davis via Openvpn-users <[email protected]>
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>On Thursday, February 8th, 2024 at 2:29 PM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, > > On Thu, Feb 08, 2024 at 10:36:31AM +0000, Peter Davis via Openvpn-users wrote: > > > Is there a way to hide the number of connections to a server? Can an intermediate server do this? Instead of connecting directly to the final server, people connect to an intermediate server and this intermediate server sends requests to the final server! > > > Not really, unless that intermediate server sets up a tunnel, and puts > all client connection into that tunnel. Then an outside observer would > only see "one connection" - but this has the risk of breaking in interesting > ways, and also tunnel-in-tunnel tends to have bad performance. > > gert > -- > "If was one thing all people took for granted, was conviction that if you > feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never doubted > it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor." > Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress > > Gert Doering - Munich, Germany [email protected] Hi, Thanks. Can an intermediate server be an OpenVPN server for clients and an OpenVPN client for the final server at the same time? Server (OpenVPN Server) ---> Intermediate Server (OpenVPN Server + OpenVPN Client) ---> Client