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Long-time tinc user here. My gut is that tinc is going to be as good as anything else here -- specifically what this means is that his "for your friends" idea

by jrm4 4y ago

Long-time tinc user here. My gut is that tinc is going to be as good as anything else here -- specifically what this means is that his "for your friends" idea doesn't hold much water for me. I.e. -- either you have friends techy enough such that you could get tinc going, or you don't, and at this level ALL of these solutions are going to be too annoying and complicated for them? For the non-techy types, I don't think any VPN like thing has been built yet? Would have to be like "syncthing" level easy.

remram 4y ago
hamachi was pretty close, we used it back in the days to play LAN games without having to enter IP addresses or mess with routers/modems.
imiric 4y ago
I'm a big fan of tinc. It's fully private and doesn't rely on public servers, like some of the mentioned solutions. Adding new peers is a minor chore, but if you have a network that doesn't change frequently, this is not an issue. Also unlike most of the alternatives, it runs absolutely everywhere. I had it setup on my pfSense router, and on my Android phone, and it worked great. Not sure why the article says that mobile support is iffy. I also used it professionally to setup a small Docker Swarm network over the internet. It also worked without issues, and was relatively simple to setup and maintain. Performance could be an issue, as the article mentions, but unless you're transferring large files, in practice it's good enough. I'm currently looking into setting this up again for personal use, and was hoping that there would be native mesh support within Wireguard, which doesn't seem to be the case.
- jrm4 4y ago
  Right? Honestly, I'm no expert, but I coded up a little crappy "good enough" onboarding shell script for myself (for adding new clients). I don't know if something similar exists already, but it seems like it could be done.

by jrm4 4y ago

remram 4y ago

hamachi was pretty close, we used it back in the days to play LAN games without having to enter IP addresses or mess with routers/modems.

imiric 4y ago

I'm a big fan of tinc. It's fully private and doesn't rely on public servers, like some of the mentioned solutions. Adding new peers is a minor chore, but if you have a network that doesn't change frequently, this is not an issue. Also unlike most of the alternatives, it runs absolutely everywhere. I had it setup on my pfSense router, and on my Android phone, and it worked great. Not sure why the article says that mobile support is iffy. I also used it professionally to setup a small Docker Swarm network over the internet. It also worked without issues, and was relatively simple to setup and maintain. Performance could be an issue, as the article mentions, but unless you're transferring large files, in practice it's good enough. I'm currently looking into setting this up again for personal use, and was hoping that there would be native mesh support within Wireguard, which doesn't seem to be the case.

jrm4 4y ago
Right? Honestly, I'm no expert, but I coded up a little crappy "good enough" onboarding shell script for myself (for adding new clients). I don't know if something similar exists already, but it seems like it could be done.