System and techniques for a virtual private network are described herein. A plurality of host beacons may be obtained. Here, each beacon corresponds to a backhaul and includes an endpoint performance data structure. A set of endpoint performance data structures may be extracted from the plurality of host beacons. The set of endpoint performance data structures may be sorted based on a set of fields of members of the set of endpoint performance data structures. Entrance to a backhaul for a host corresponding to an endpoint performance data structure at an end of the sorted set of endpoint performance data structures may be negotiated.