diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 1951b30..690e418 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Then run `make client` or `make server`. Output binary will be in `build` folder
 ## Setup
 ### For the administrator of the server
 
-0. Set up the underlying proxy server. Note that if you are using OpenVPN, you must change the protocol to TCP as Cloak does not support UDP
+0. Set up the underlying proxy server.
 1. Download [the latest release](https://github.com/cbeuw/Cloak/releases) or clone and build this repo.
 2. Run ck-server -k. The base64 string before the comma is the **public** key to be given to users, the one after the comma is the **private** key to be kept secret
 3. Run `ck-server -u`. This will be used as the AdminUID
diff --git a/internal/client/state.go b/internal/client/state.go
index 4ecd27b..e663a49 100644
--- a/internal/client/state.go
+++ b/internal/client/state.go
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"io/ioutil"
+	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -23,6 +24,7 @@ type rawConfig struct {
 	Transport        string
 	NumConn          int
 	StreamTimeout    int
+	RemotePort       int
 }
 
 // State stores the parsed configuration fields
@@ -142,5 +144,15 @@ func (sta *State) ParseConfig(conf string) (err error) {
 	}
 	sta.staticPub = pub
 
+	// OPTIONAL: set RemotePort via JSON
+	// if RemotePort is specified in the JSON we overwrite sta.RemotePort
+	// if not, don't do anything, since sta.RemotePort is already initialised in ck-client.go
+	if preParse.RemotePort != 0 {
+		// basic validity check
+		if preParse.RemotePort >= 1 && preParse.RemotePort <= 65535 {
+			sta.RemotePort = strconv.Itoa(preParse.RemotePort)
+		}
+	}
+
 	return nil
 }