On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Federico Sevilla III wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 at 10:56, Ian C. Sison wrote:
> > Userland it is, and performs quite well.  It's unlike traditional
> > point-to-point VPNs, in that its tap device acts like an _ethernet_
> > device wherin all points connected to the VPN appear to be hooked up to
> > the same "ethernet" bus... So no more routing gymnastics needed.
>
> Oh, so it uses tap devices. Aren't those "on their way out" in the
> kernels? But this looks really cool and uber-maintainable. I also imagine
> that it can encrypt anything that's TCP/IP?

It uses both tap and tun, take your pick.. And yes the encryption is
openssl blowfish i believe.

>
> I'm curious, BTW, have you gotten this to work with Windows clients? Or is
> it only for tinc-to-tinc talk?

for now, it's tinc-to-tinc.  Maybe later someone will do a port..


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