[CloselyChunky]

IMO tinc is really awesome. I've been using it for years to connect my servers, laptops and desktops into a VPN.

Including my RPI (running PiHole in my LAN) into the tinc VPN gave me an easy way to access my home network from anywhere in the world. One of my dedicated servers would automatically take care of routing the traffic and I can just `ssh foo@10.0.0.42` to connect to the RPI and be inside my home network.

IIRC tinc implements some tricks like TCP/UDP hole punching. So best case I end up with an actual p2p connection between my remote device and home network after connecting via tinc.

[rkeene2]

Tinc is even more awesome than that -- if you are using it on the same LAN as other nodes on the VPN it will try to make sure traffic between those nodes stays on the same LAN (it has a special broadcast beacon it sends out to find these).

It ALSO supports arbitrary commands for connecting, like ProxyCommand in OpenSSH so you can proxy through any kind of thing manually if you need to.

Tinc is really awesome !

[linsomniac]

IIRC ZeroTier borrowed the NAT hole punching code.