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Firs time I'm hearing about tinc, looks great. How does it compare to wireguard? Pros and cons?
by jxjnskkzxxhx 1y ago
Firs time I'm hearing about tinc, looks great. How does it compare to wireguard? Pros and cons?
- jrm4 1y agoThey do different things, I hear? I know Wireguard works closer to the kernel, but it's more of a traditional "VPN" otherwise, and you'd have to add "mesh."
- remram 1y agoTinc will exchange endpoint information over the network, so clients will connect directly to other clients without having to set up every connection explicitly. For example, if A is configured to connect to B, and C is configured to connect to B, then A can connect to C to exchange packets directly without you having to configure that. https://tinc-vpn.org/documentation-1.1/How-connections-work.html https://tinc-vpn.org/documentation-1.1/How-connections-work.... Tinc will also do a layer 2 tunnel if you want (tap) while wireguard is only layer 3 (no broadcast/multicast). The big con of tinc (and most VPN solutions) compared to wireguard is performance. Wireguard is a small kernel module which can process traffic very fast.