>- Runs on TCP<p>Tunneling TCP over another TCP is usually a bad idea because if any packet loss occurs both TCPs will detect it and start issuing retransmits on their own. This can lead to packet storms and really ruin your day.<p>There are ways around that (like to proxy instead of tunnel), but they are not "dead simple" like this.
Discussion from 4 days ago Dead Simple VPN <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20487707" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20487707</a>
Thanks for that link. That looks awesome, especially compared to an OpenVPN setup (and yes I am aware of the fact that this project is not as sophisticated by far, but the default use case - VPN - is covered good enough :)