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tinc is really good little secret I have found if you want a true mesh P2P secure overlay network. It's open source, has a good community in freenode #tinc, an
by aguynamedben 16y ago
tinc is really good little secret I have found if you want a true mesh P2P secure overlay network. It's open source, has a good community in freenode #tinc, and really easy to install and use, just read the man page http://linux.die.net/man/5/tinc.conf http://linux.die.net/man/5/tinc.conf
http://tinc-vpn.org/ http://tinc-vpn.org/
- pilif 16y agocan you tell me what the actual difference between OpenVPN and tinc is? I know OpenVPN very well and really like it. Why would I prefer tinc over OpenVPN (or the other way around)? In my opinion, they share a lot of the same features like running in userspace, easy configuration, ssl/certificate based authentication - just the same.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoFront page of the project website: "Automatic full mesh routing. Regardless of how you set up the tinc daemons to connect to each other, VPN traffic is always (if possible) sent directly to the destination, without going through intermediate hop" OpenVPN doesn't do that, and it sounds very useful when multiple machines are involved
- tptacek 16y agoI strongly recommend not relying on the VPN written in C that nobody's heard of that uses a hand-rolled custom RSA authentication algorithm to authenticate connections for your perimeter security.