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tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunnelling and
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encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet.
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Because the tunnel appears to the IP level network code as a normal network
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device, there is no need to adapt any existing software. This tunnelling
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allows VPN sites to share information with each other over the Internet
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without exposing any information to others.
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A single tinc daemon can accept more than one connection at a time, thus
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making it possible to create larger virtual networks, because some
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limitations are circumvented.
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Instead of most other VPN implementations, tinc encapsulates each network
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packet in its own UDP packet, instead of encapsulating all into one TCP or
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even PPP over TCP stream. This results in lower latencies, less overhead,
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and in general better responsiveness and throughput.
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WWW: http://tinc.nl.linux.org/
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