Tinc

What is Tinc

Tinc is a mesh-style VPN software that is very lightweight and easier to configure (and more flexible) than OpenVPN. Tinc is not good for large networks, but it's perfect for a small group of servers that simply need to have access to one another.

Installing Tinc

Do it the easy way...

Mac

$ brew install tinc

[...snip...]

$ which tincd
/usr/local/sbin/tincd

$ tincd --version
tinc version 1.0.33
Copyright (C) 1998-2017 Ivo Timmermans, Guus Sliepen and others.
See the AUTHORS file for a complete list.

tinc comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
see the file COPYING for details.

Debian Linux

On Linux:

$ apt-get install tinc

This will install a daemon called tincd, accessible to the root user only.

$ sudo su
[sudo] password for charles:

root@jupiter:/home/charles# which tincd
/usr/sbin/tincd

root@jupiter:/home/charles# tincd --version
tinc version 1.0.31
Copyright (C) 1998-2017 Ivo Timmermans, Guus Sliepen and others.
See the AUTHORS file for a complete list.

tinc comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software,
and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
see the file COPYING for details.

Notes

https://silvenga.com/deploy-a-tinc-mesh-vpn-running-tap/

http://www.allsundry.com/2011/04/10/tinc-better-than-openvpn/

All the setup you need:

In /etc/netname/tinc.conf:
Name = host1
ConnectTo = host2

In /etc/netname/tinc-up
ifconfig $INTERFACE 192.168.XX.1 netmask 255.255.0.0

# Generate keypairs for host
tincd -n netname -K

# Create file for this host. Prepend to /etc/netname/hosts/host1
Address = host1.full.domain.com
Subnet = 192.168.XX.0/24