tinc What is 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 tinc is Free Software and licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later
Download - tinc-vpn. org Here is a full listing of all versions of tinc that have been made public If you wish to get the current development version, please get it from our git repository
docs - tinc-vpn. org This text describes how to set up a VPN using tinc It also contains a chapter with more technical details, which you may want to read, as well as the ideas behind tinc
examples - tinc-vpn. org The following links go to external sites: l2mesh: using puppet to maintain a layer 2 mesh of tinc nodes
setting up an IPv6 network managed by tinc This setup uses tinc’s “switch” mode: subnets are not assigned in the host files; only Address (for ConnectTo targets only) and the key are required in host files
Example configuration (tinc Manual) After each branch has finished configuration and they have distributed the host configuration files amongst them, they can start their tinc daemons They don’t necessarily have to wait for the other branches to have started their daemons, tinc will try connecting until they are available
installing tinc on Windows 2000 XP 7 8 Start tinc with the -n option set to the name of your VPN and use the -K option: tincd -n vpn -K The keypair will be generated, and you are asked to enter the names of the files to store them
Reporting security issues - tinc-vpn. org In case you have found a security issue in tinc, please report it via email to Guus Sliepen guus@tinc-vpn org, preferrably PGP encrypted We will then try to get a CVE number assigned, and coordinate a bugfix release with major Linux distributions
tinc Manual The encrypted tunnels allows VPN sites to share information with each other over the Internet without exposing any information to others This document is the manual for tinc Included are chapters on how to configure your computer to use tinc, as well as the configuration process of tinc itself
installing tinc on Mac OS X This example shows how to install and configure tinc on Mac OS X The following was tested on Snow Leopard based system, however should be generalisable to other Apple systems as well