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You can use either UDP or TCP underlying network transport protocols.
TCP consumes more traffic: two additional bytes per packet. Also it is has more complex and slightly slower code. Moreover because of packet loss and TCP reliability it can lead to "meltdown" effect: significant performance decrease of underlying TCP connections. So generally TCP is not advisable for VPNs, but it can help with some nasty firewalls.