A Tunnel which turns UDP Traffic into Encrypted FakeTCP/UDP/ICMP Traffic by using Raw Socket, helps you Bypass UDP FireWalls(or Unstable UDP Environment). It can defend Replay-Attack and supports Multiplexing. It also acts as a Connection Stabilizer.
When used alone,udp2raw tunnels only UDP traffic. Nevertheless,if you used udp2raw + any UDP-based VPN together,you can tunnel any traffic(include TCP/UDP/ICMP),currently OpenVPN/L2TP/ShadowVPN and [tinyFecVPN](https://github.com/wangyu-/tinyFecVPN) are confirmed to be supported。
For Windows and MacOS You can run udp2raw inside [this](https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel/releases/download/20171108.0/lede-17.01.2-x86_virtual_machine_image.zip) 7.5mb virtual machine image(make sure network adapter runs at bridged mode).
ICMP/FakeTCP headers help you bypass UDP blocking, UDP QOS or improper UDP NAT behavior on some ISPs. In ICMP header mode,udp2raw works like an ICMP tunnel.
UDP headers are also supported. In UDP header mode, it behaves just like a normal UDP tunnel, and you can just make use of the other features (such as encrytion, anti-replay, or connection stalization).
In FakeTCP header mode,udp2raw simulates 3-way handshake while establishing a connection,simulates seq and ack_seq while data transferring. It also simulates following TCP options: `MSS`, `sackOk`, `TS`, `TS_ack`, `wscale`.Firewalls will regard FakeTCP as a TCP connection, but its essentially UDP: it supports real-time/out-of-order delivery(just as normal UDP does), no congrestion control or re-transmission. So there wont be any TCP over TCP problem when using OpenVPN.
Conection failures are detected by heartbeats. If timed-out, client will automatically change port number and reconnect. If reconnection is successful, the previous connection will be recovered, and all existing UDP conversations will stay vaild.
For example, if you use udp2raw + OpenVPN, OpenVPN won't lose connection after any reconnect, **even if network cable is re-plugged or WiFi access point is changed**.
* **Easy to Build** No dependencies.To cross-compile udp2raw,all you need to do is just to download a toolchain,modify makefile to point at the toolchain,run `make cross` then everything is done.(Note:Pre-compiled binaries for Desktop,RaspberryPi,Android,some Openwrt Routers are already included in [Releases](https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel/releases))
`Bypass UDP QoS``Bypass UDP Blocking``Bypass OpenVPN TCP over TCP problem``OpenVPN over ICMP``UDP to ICMP tunnel``UDP to TCP tunnel``UDP over ICMP``UDP over TCP`
### Q: What is the advantage of using udp2raw FakeTCP mode,why not use a TCP-based VPN(such as OpenVPN TCP mode)?
Answer: **TCP doesnt allow real-time/out-of-order delivery**. **If you use OpenVPN TCP mode to turn UDP traffic into TCP,there will be latency issue**:the loss of a single packet blocks all following packet until re-transmission is done. This will cause unacceptable delay for gaming and voice chatting.
**TCP also has re-transmission and congestion control which cant be disabled.** UDP programs usualy want to control packet sending rate by themselves. If you use OpenVPN TCP mode this cant be done because of the congestion control of underlying TCP protocol. Further more,with the re-transmission of underlying TCP,**if you send too many udp packets via an OpenVPN TCP connection,the connection will become completely unusable for a while**(It will eventually recover as most of the re-transmission is done,but it wont be very soon).
Those issues exist for almost all TCP-based VPNs.
For udp2raw there is no underlying TCP protocol,udp2raw just add TCP headers to UDP packets directly by using raw socket. It supports real-time/out-of-order delivery,there is no re-transmission and congestion control. **Udp2raw doesnt have all above issues**.
### Q: Is udp2raw designed for replacing VPN?
Answer: No. Udp2raw is designed for bypassing UDP restrictions.It doesnt have all of the features a VPN has(such as transparently redirect all traffic).
Instead of replacing VPN,udp2raw can be used with any UDP-based VPN together to grant UDP-based VPN the ablity of bypassing UDP restrictions,while not having the performance issue involved by a TCP-based VPN. Check [this link](https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel#tunneling-any-traffic-via-raw-traffic-by-using-udp2raw-openvpn) for more info.
Assume your UDP is blocked or being QOS-ed or just poorly supported. Assume your server ip is 44.55.66.77, you have a service listening on udp port 7777.
Now,an encrypted raw tunnel has been established between client and server through TCP port 4096. Connecting to UDP port 3333 at the client side is equivalent to connecting to port 7777 at the server side. No UDP traffic will be exposed.
You can run udp2raw with a non-root account(for better security).Take a look at [#26](https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel/issues/26) for more info.
This program sends packets via raw socket. In FakeTCP mode, Linux kernel TCP packet processing has to be blocked by a iptables rule on both sides, otherwise the kernel will automatically send RST for an unrecongized TCP packet and you will sustain from stability / peformance problems. You can use `-a` option to let the program automatically add / delete iptables rule on start / exit. You can also use the `-g` option to generate iptables rule and add it manually.
It is suggested to use `aes128cbc` + `md5` to obtain maximum security. If you want to run the program on a router, you can try `xor` + `simple`, which can fool packet inspection by firewalls the most of time, but it cannot protect you from serious attacks. Mode none is only for debugging purpose. It is not recommended to set the cipher-mode or auth-mode to none.
The FakeTCP mode does not behave 100% like a real tcp connection. ISPs may be able to distinguish the simulated tcp traffic from the real TCP traffic (though it's costly). seq-mode can help you change the seq increase behavior slightly. If you experience connection problems, try to change the value.
`--lower-level` allows you to send packet at OSI level 2(link level),so that you can bypass any local iptables rules. If you have a complicated iptables rules which conflicts with udp2raw and you cant(or too lazy to) edit the iptables rules,`--lower-level` can be very useful. Try `--lower-level auto` to auto detect the parameters,you can specify it manually if `auto` fails.
Manual format `if_name#dest_mac_adress`,ie:`eth0#00:23:45:67:89:b9`.
Monitor iptables and auto re-add iptables rules(for blocking kernel tcp processing) if necessary.Especially useful when iptables rules may be cleared by other programs(for example,if you are using openwrt,everytime you changed and commited a setting,iptables rule may be cleared and re-constructed).
For example, rewrite the options for the above `server` example (in Getting Started section) into configuration file:
`server.conf`
```
-s
# You can add comments like this
# Comments MUST occupy an entire line
# Or they will not work as expected
# Listen address
-l 0.0.0.0:4096
# Remote address
-r 127.0.0.1:7777
-a
-k passwd
--raw-mode faketcp
```
Pay attention to the `-k` parameter: In command line mode the quotes around the password will be removed by shell. In configuration files we do not remove quotes.
(iperf3 UDP mode is not used because of a bug mentioned in this issue: https://github.com/esnet/iperf/issues/296 . Instead, we package the TCP traffic into UDP by OpenVPN to test the performance. Read [Application](https://github.com/wangyu-/udp2raw-tunnel#application) for details.
kcptun is a tcp connection speed-up program,it speeds-up tcp connection by using kcp protocol on-top of udp.by using udp2raw,you can use kcptun while udp is QoSed or blocked.
finalspeed is a tcp connection speed-up program similiar to kcptun,it speeds-up tcp connection by using kcp protocol on-top of udp or tcp.but its tcp mode doesnt support openvz,you can bypass this problem if you use udp2raw+finalspeed together,and icmp mode also becomes avaliable.
Tcp Minion is a project which modifid the code of tcp stack in kernel,and implemented real-time out-order udp packet delivery through this modified tcp stack.I failed to find the implementation,but there are some papers avaliable:
