Re: China Telecom VPN problems (again)

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Tom Paseka <tom () cloudflare com> wrote:
> Its quite easy to get MPLS-VPN connectivity into China (Pacnet, Singtel,
> CPCNet, etc, will offer), but at a price.

mpls != ipsec ... perhaps the OP wants some privacy and authentication and such?

> Suzhou and Shenzhen are easily in reach of all the above listed providers.
>
> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Warren Bailey <
> wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com> wrote:
>
> > We tried to get our VPN work from the China Telecom/China Unicom beijing
> > POP for over a year. The Chinese always claimed it was kosher, but we had
> > something like 60%+ loss across our 4 hop VPN for the entirety of the
> > project. Private circuits don't really exist on the mainland, HK and
> > (maybe) Shanghai are about the only places for decent connectivity. :/
> >
> > On 12/5/12 7:38 AM, "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > It's called the great firewall of china. Feel free to shift vendors but it
> > > won't help.
> > >
> > > Meanwhile make sure none of your users are surfing for falun gong,
> > > dalai lama, ai weiwei or whoever else the chicom censors don't like on
> > > that
> > > particular day
> > >
> > > On Wednesday, December 5, 2012, Thomas York wrote:
> > >
> > > > It looks like I'm having China Telecom issues yet again. They're batting
> > > > down our SSL VPN tunnels. Switching ports doesn't help. Tunneling the
> > > > SSL
> > > > tunnel inside of another tunnel doesn't help. At this point I'm tired of
> > > > listening to the screaming by the business users. Can someone contact me
> > > > (here or off-list, I don't care) about circuits in China so that we
> > > > don't
> > > > have to use China Telecom? We'd only need 2-10 Mbit and Ethernet hand
> > > > off.
> > > > We don't need BGP or MPLS or anything remotely fancy. Our main concern
> > > > is
> > > > getting connectivity to the business district in Suzhou, but it'd be
> > > > nice
> > > > if
> > > > we could also use the same carrier in Shenzhen.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > -- Thomas York
> > >
> > > --
> > > --srs (iPad)