Tinc (protocol)

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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).

Contents 1 Supported network transports 2 Embedded techologies 3 Projects that use tinc 4 External links

[edit] Supported network transports

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

[edit] Embedded techologies

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

[edit] Projects that use tinc

• Freifunk: tinc was enabled in their routers as of October 2006 [1].
• OpenWRT has an installable package for tinc.

[edit] External links

• Homepage
• Project VOLANS: project page using tinc as the VPN protocol.
• "Quick & Dirty TINC setup"
• Gentoo Linux tinc setup

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