Tinc (protocol)

      Type self-routing, mesh networking protocol
      License GPL
      Website www.tinc-vpn.org

      Tinc is a self-routing, mesh networking protocol, used for compressed, encrypted, virtual private networks. It was started in 1998 by Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, and Robert van der Meulen, and released as a GPL-licensed project.

      Supported network transports

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      Embedded technologies

      • OpenSSL (encryption library)
      • zlib ("best compression")
      • LZO ("fast compression")
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      Projects that use tinc

      • Freifunk: tinc was enabled in their routers as of October 2006 [1].
      • OpenWrt has an installable package for tinc.
      • pfSense has a package in development for their 2.1 release [2]
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      Last modified on 28 January 2013, at 02:53