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NAME
tinc - mesh peer to peer VPN
SYNOPSIS
ip/tinc [ -d ] [ -p maxprocs ] [ -x inside ] [ -o outside ]
[ -c confdir ] [ -n myname ] localip localmask [ hosts... ]
DESCRIPTION
Tinc implements the mesh peer to peer VPN protocol from
https://www.tinc-vpn.org/ as of version 1.0.32. Within a
tinc VPN one can reach all the subnets of all hosts within
the network even when not directly connected to the owning
host of the subnet.
Each host that is directly connected to us has its own host-
file under confdir/hosts/hostname containing its public
address, owned subnets, options and RSA public key. The
hostfile format is the same as the original tinc implementa-
tion. The confdir is specified with the -c option or
defaults to the current working directory. Other hosts
might exist behind these directly connected nodes but this
information is distributed automatically within the proto-
col.
On startup, tinc creates an ip interface with the address
localip and network mask localmask on the inside ip stack
(specified with -x option) and starts listening for incoming
connections on the outside ip stack (specified with the -o
option). When optional hosts are specified on the command
line, then it will also do outgoing connections using the
outside ip stack. The localmask usually is a supernet of all
the subnets within the VPN. Our own hostname myhost can be
specified with -n option or is assumed to be the sysname
when not specified. This host's RSA private key needs to be
present in factotum and tagged with service=tinc and
host=myhost.
The options:
-d Enable debug output and do not fork to the background.
-p Limit the number of client processes (incoming and out-
going connections per protocol) to maxprocs.
-x Specifies the inside and outside network stack direc-
tory where the tinc ip interface is bound. Defaults to
/net.
-o Specifies the outside network stack directory where
incoming and outgoing tinc connections are made.
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Defaults to inside.
-c Specifies the configuration directory confdir for the
VPN.
-n Sets our hostname to myhost.
SEE ALSO
rsa(8), ip(3)
https://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/
SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/ip/tinc.c
HISTORY
Tinc first appeared in 9front (October, 2017).
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