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can 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 th
by pilif 16y ago
can 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