I've been running a tinc mesh network for eons w/ my systems and it's never given me any trouble. I use git to check in the 'hosts/' folder and add/remove hosts as needed, pull down to all the nodes, and they can all connect.
I do wish the encryption + transport could be as performant as wireguard, but for my needs, I haven't been pushing it hard enough that it's a concern for me.
Tinc works, but is not really stable for my use case: strange network environment thanks to my school. It frequently falls into infinite loops, dropping all packets and fully use a CPU core (on Windows, Linux looks fine). It seems stable on an all-Linux network, but the moment a Windows client is added, things can go wrong.
It also does not really have a decent mobile client.
Thats very strange. I use tinc-vpn exclusivly for my network.
Both Linux, Win32, and FreeBSD. Everything is very stable.
But I have to admit, I have private fork of tinc-vpn specifically for Win32.
AFAIR I did only minor changes to TAP driver initialization and how
scripts are executed. They have they own thread now and additionaly there is script called tinc-pre to handle IP initialization before TAP interface is up.
Becuase meh, Windows Network Interfaces work strange :)
I went with Dormant as 1.1 has been in development for years and no official stable release. Changes to 1.1 are the odd PR here and there, nothing really from the main author anymore.
Yeah things like improving the encryption I would expect even with a stable but active product like this. Especially given ChaCha20’s widespread adoption and optimisation these days. Likewise I would have liked to have seen decent tinc phone clients (ios, Android). But this is a failing of a lot of VPN clients.
Just look at the release interval on their news page.
Honestly I think the likes of WireGuard, Tailscale, etc took the steam out of the developer. It’s a shame because I do prefer to have a diverse range of VPNs rather than just OpenVPN, IPsec, WireGuard.
It's not so much the other VPN products out there, rather no time and no other core developers. There have been lots of people contributing, some much more than others, but usually it was just to scratch their itch, after which they move on (which is perfectly fine).
I'm not sure how to revitalize development if there is not a large interest from developers, and I don't want to turn this into something commercial like OpenVPN did.
Same here. Im very happy with tinc-vpn. It can easly push 100Mbit traffic
through my severs and thats enough for my needs. Also, auto-mesh is very nice feature. I do NOT want to forward traffic via my central hubs.
Note: I use tinc-vpn only in switch (L2) mode. For routing good old quagga (forked) does it job.
I've been running a tinc mesh network for eons w/ my systems and it's never given me any trouble. I use git to check in the 'hosts/' folder and add/remove hosts as needed, pull down to all the nodes, and they can all connect.
I do wish the encryption + transport could be as performant as wireguard, but for my needs, I haven't been pushing it hard enough that it's a concern for me.