<story><title>Tinc, a GPLv2 mesh routing VPN</title><url>https://www.tinc-vpn.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buserror</author><text>Been using tinc for god knows how long... Perhaps 20 years? It&amp;#x27;s been fantastic. I really don&amp;#x27;t know why people are wax-lyrical about wireguard. tinc was doing it 20 years ago. UDP? yeah. encryption, mesh, proxy ARP you name it. I&amp;#x27;ve had countless install and it&amp;#x27;s been the best VPN.&lt;p&gt;You even get a &amp;#x27;dot&amp;#x27; graph of your current network status if you want to. When &amp;#x27;git&amp;#x27; was invented, I put my &amp;#x2F;etc&amp;#x2F;tinc&amp;#x2F;*&amp;#x2F; into git with the public keys, and installing a new host to the mesh is one &amp;#x27;git clone&amp;#x27; away.&lt;p&gt;Most underrated open source software ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JeremyNT</author><text>I used and still really adore tinc, it&amp;#x27;s been a joy to use.&lt;p&gt;I will say however that development appears to have fizzled out. I was really looking forward to some of the changes in 1.1, but it&amp;#x27;s been in pre-release for years now and doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like it&amp;#x27;s closer to being officially released.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve largely replaced tinc with Nebula [0], but I still think fondly of it.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;slackhq&amp;#x2F;nebula&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;slackhq&amp;#x2F;nebula&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Tinc, a GPLv2 mesh routing VPN</title><url>https://www.tinc-vpn.org/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>buserror</author><text>Been using tinc for god knows how long... Perhaps 20 years? It&amp;#x27;s been fantastic. I really don&amp;#x27;t know why people are wax-lyrical about wireguard. tinc was doing it 20 years ago. UDP? yeah. encryption, mesh, proxy ARP you name it. I&amp;#x27;ve had countless install and it&amp;#x27;s been the best VPN.&lt;p&gt;You even get a &amp;#x27;dot&amp;#x27; graph of your current network status if you want to. When &amp;#x27;git&amp;#x27; was invented, I put my &amp;#x2F;etc&amp;#x2F;tinc&amp;#x2F;*&amp;#x2F; into git with the public keys, and installing a new host to the mesh is one &amp;#x27;git clone&amp;#x27; away.&lt;p&gt;Most underrated open source software ever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>generalizations</author><text>The draw of wireguard, at least for me, is the performance. Otherwise I’d be all in on tinc or zerotier.</text></comment>