Tinc (protocol)

Tinc (protocol)

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. It remains active as of June 2007 (version 1.08).

Supported network transports

* IPv4
* IPv6
* Virtualized Ethernet (via TUN/TAP driver)

Embedded techologies

* OpenSSL (encryption library)
* zlib ("best compression")
* LZO ("fast compression")

Projects that use tinc

* Freifunk: tinc was enabled in their routers as of October 2006 [http://www.the-mesh.org/tiki-read_article.php?articleId=39] .
* OpenWRT has an installable package for tinc.

External links

* [http://www.tinc-vpn.org/ Homepage]
* [http://mia.ece.uic.edu/~papers/volans/tincd2.html Project VOLANS] : project page using tinc as the VPN protocol.
* [http://www.vanheusden.com/Linux/tinc_mini_howto.html "Quick & Dirty TINC setup"]
* [http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_a_VPN_with_tinc Gentoo Linux tinc setup]


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