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> Does tinc solve that port forwarding problem? From the features list: “Regardless of how you set up the tinc daemons to connect to each other, VPN traffic is
by dspillett 3y ago
> Does tinc solve that port forwarding problem?
From the features list: “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 hops.” and “As long as one node in the VPN allows incoming connections on a public IP address (even if it is a dynamic IP address), tinc will be able to do NAT traversal, allowing direct communication between peers.”
So yes, it gets around that problem if you have at least one publicly connectable node. How it does this if that node doesn't have a fixed address I've not looked into. Also there are no doubt NAT arrangements that it can't punch through meaning it'll have to fall-back to something akin to your hub model with nodes affected by such NAT talking to each other through another node.