On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 07:29:55PM +0200, Ivan Vilata i Balaguer wrote: > I'm interested in using Tinc for building an overlay network on top of a > community network. The overlay may consist of some hundreds of nodes, > and devices will most probably not be very powerful (Alix or > Commell-like or even less). To make the overlay network topology > resemble the real one as much as possible, all nodes would ConnectTo all > other nodes.
This is not necessary, you only need one (but better a few for redundancy)
ConnectTo statements. Tinc will figure out how to communicate with all the
other nodes by itself.
> Has anyone worked with a Tinc setup similar to this one? Do you thik
> Tinc would scale up to a network with so many connections so as to still
> be runnable in so low-powered hardware?
ChaosVPN (a large VPN connecting lots of hackerspaces) currently has 131 nodes
running tinc, and a lot of these are Fonera routers, which have much lower
specs than Alix or Commell boards as far as I know.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>
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