Tinc (protocol)
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| Original author(s) | Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, Wessel Dankers |
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| Developer(s) | The Tinc development team |
| Initial release | 14 November 1998 |
| Stable release | 1.0.26 / 5 July 2015 |
| Preview release | 1.1pre11 / 1 March 2015 |
| Written in | C (programming language) |
| Operating system | Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Solaris |
| Type | VPN |
| License | GPL |
| Website | www |
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
Embedded technologies
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.
External links
- Homepage
- Debian GNU/Linux tinc dhcp bridging setup
- "Quick & Dirty TINC setup"
- Gentoo Linux tinc setup
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