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Tinc (protocol)

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Original author(s)
  
Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, Wessel Dankers

Developer(s)
  
The Tinc development team

Initial release
  
14 November 1998 (1998-11-14)

Stable release
  
1.0.28 / 10 April 2016; 11 months ago (2016-04-10)

Preview release
  
1.1pre14 / 1 May 2016; 10 months ago (2016-05-01)

Written in
  
C (programming language)

Tinc is an open-source, self-routing, mesh networking protocol, used for compressed, encrypted, virtual private networks. It was started in 1998 by Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, and Wessel Dankers, and released as a GPL-licensed project.

Contents

Supported network transports

  • IPv4
  • IPv6
  • Ethernet

    • Embedded technologies

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

    • 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 an installable package in the 2.2 release [2]
  • Tomato has tinc support included in the Shibby mod.

    • References

    Tinc (protocol) Wikipedia
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