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Assuming you’re tunneling TCP inside of TCP, then in the event of non-perfect network conditions, you have two layers of the stack that are now trying to adjust
by anderiv 5y ago
Assuming you’re tunneling TCP inside of TCP, then in the event of non-perfect network conditions, you have two layers of the stack that are now trying to adjust the TCP flow parameters, re-transmit packets, etc. This will frequently end up in a situation where overall performance of the link is significantly worse than it needs to be.