Tinc (protocol)
| Original author(s) | Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, Wessel Dankers |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | The Tinc development team |
| Initial release | 14 November 1998 |
| Stable release |
1.0.28
/ 10 April 2016[1] |
| Preview release |
1.1pre14
/ 1 May 2016[2] |
| 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.
Supported network transports
Embedded technologies
Projects that use tinc
- Freifunk: tinc was enabled in their routers as of October 2006 .
- OpenWrt has an installable package for tinc.
- pfSense has an installable package in the 2.2 release
- Tomato has tinc support included in the Shibby mod.
References
- ↑ Sliepen, Guus (2016-04-10). "Tinc version 1.0.28 released". tinc (Mailing list). Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- ↑ Sliepen, Guus (2016-05-01). "Tinc version 1.1pre14 released". tinc (Mailing list). Retrieved 2 July 2016.
External links
- Homepage
- Debian GNU/Linux tinc dhcp bridging setup
- "Quick & Dirty TINC setup"
- Gentoo Linux tinc setup
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