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In my experience for a simple connection between two hosts a port forwarded over ssh was significantly faster than tinc VPN. Obviously ssh is port forwarding is
by anshargal 9y ago
In my experience for a simple connection between two hosts a port forwarded over ssh was significantly faster than tinc VPN. Obviously ssh is port forwarding is not a network, but sometimes you don't need a network.
- whalesalad 9y agoI knew I would click on this thread and see a comment suggesting SSH. You are right – but SSH is certainly not a network. This technology is useful for folks who need to go down a layer in the stack.
- geek_at 9y agotrue there was a blog post here recently where the conclusion was that ssh tunnels were much faster (by a factor of 6 or 8) than vpns
- metalliqaz 9y agoBy a factor of 6 to 8??? I think you mean "by 6 to 8 percent".
- BlackLotus89 9y agoNo he meant factor https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15773466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15773466
- djrogers 9y agoThe thread you link to has one performance test, with a difference of 750MB for OpenVPN and 870MB for SSH - how is that a factor of 6 to 8? And that's just for iperf/UDP traffic, which is hardly a good indicator of real world performance.
- nh2 9y agoWhy would iperf-created traffic not be a good indicator of real world performance? On pretty much all sensible networks I've tested iperf3 on, performance of actual applications sending data was close to its results.