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For someone who has no idea what this means, can someone please offer a simple explanation? When I read "mesh network" I think about those routers with modules
by throwawaysea 5y ago
For someone who has no idea what this means, can someone please offer a simple explanation? When I read "mesh network" I think about those routers with modules you can use to get good WiFi coverage at home. This sounds more like connecting your devices across the Internet in some private manner. What would you use this for?
- ptman 5y agoWireGuard is a VPN protocol. There are roughly two kinds of VPN. Those that you use to hide who you are when accessing the Internet (route all your traffic via the VPN to an exit node) and those that you use to build a private network over a public one for e.g. a company or other organization. Wiretrustee seems to be for generating a private org network. Could be personal, work, circle of friends or anything. Most traditional work VPNs have one or more nodes that all traffic pass through and that all connect to. A mesh VPN instead allows VPN peers to send traffic directly to each other over the public Internet. There seems to be a central coordination/signaling server, as with tailscale, headscale and innernet. But that is mainly used to find where the traffic should be sent, not for sending all traffic through it.
- zimpenfish 5y agoI use it for connecting my tiny SMTP ingress machine to my big SMTP backend machine and doing the ClamAV scanning over the VPN link (because it's now far too heavy for the tiny SMTP machine these days but the big machine has plenty of resources free.)