Tinc

Tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet.

Here are main features at a glance:

• Encryption, authentication and compression
  • All traffic is optionally compressed using zlib or LZO, and LibreSSL or OpenSSL is used to encrypt the traffic and protect it from alteration with message authentication codes and sequence numbers.
• Automatic full mesh routing
  • Regardless of how you set up the tinc daemons to connect to each other, VPN traffic is always (if possible) sent directly to the destination, without going through intermediate hops.
• NAT traversal
  • As long as one node in the VPN allows incoming connections on a public IP address (even if it is a dynamic IP address), tinc will be able to do NAT traversal, allowing direct communication between peers.
• Easily expand your VPN
  • When you want to add nodes to your VPN, all you have to do is add an extra configuration file, there is no need to start new daemons or create and configure new devices or network interfaces.
• Ability to bridge ethernet segments
  • You can link multiple ethernet segments together to work like a single segment, allowing you to run applications and games that normally only work on a LAN over the Internet.
• Runs on many operating systems and supports IPv6
  • Currently Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, OS X, Solaris, Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 and 8 platforms are supported.

Required Kernel Options

Network device support
<M> Universal tun/tap device driver support

Installing tinc

in Funtoo Linux as easy as:

root # emerge -av net-vpn/tinc
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/lzo-2.10:2::dev-kit  USE="-examples -static-libs" ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 587 KiB
[ebuild  N     ] net-vpn/tinc-1.1_pre15::net-kit  USE="lzo ncurses readline ssl zlib -gui -libressl -uml -upnp -vde" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 688 KiB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,275 KiB

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