On Monday 28 July 2008, Billy Crook wrote:
Even sneakier VPN systems include ones that tunnel the data through ICMP echo and echo reply packets, and ones that tunnel using DNS queries and responses. While I've never set either of those up, I imagine they are quite slow. I know the former requires some invasive kernel patch as well.
Not so much slow as unreliable... to the point of being mostly useless.