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It may not be obvious, but due to the way tinc operates (single-threaded control loop with no intermediate packet buffer), UDP send and receive buffers can have a massive impact on performance. It is therefore of paramount importance that the buffers be large enough to prevent packet drops that could occur while tinc is processing a packet. Leaving that value to the OS default could be reasonable if we weren't relying on it so much. Instead, this makes performance somewhat unpredictable. In practice, the worst case scenario occurs on Windows, where Microsoft had the brillant idea of making the buffers 8K in size by default, no matter what the link speed is. Considering that 8K flies past in a matter of microseconds on >1G links, this is extremely inappropriate. On these systems, changing the buffer size to 1M results in *obscene* raw throughput improvements; I have observed a 10X jump from 40 Mbit/s to 400 Mbit/s on my system. In this commit, we stop trusting the OS to get this right and we use a fixed 1M value instead, which should be enough for <=1G links. |
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This is the README file for tinc version 1.1pre11. Installation instructions may be found in the INSTALL file. tinc is Copyright (C) 1998-2014 by: Ivo Timmermans, Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>, and others. For a complete list of authors see the AUTHORS file. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the file COPYING for more details. This is a pre-release --------------------- Please note that this is NOT a stable release. Until version 1.1.0 is released, please use one of the 1.0.x versions if you need a stable version of tinc. Although tinc 1.1 will be protocol compatible with tinc 1.0.x, the functionality of the tinc program may still change, and the control socket protocol is not fixed yet. Security statement ------------------ This version uses an experimental and unfinished cryptographic protocol. Use it at your own risk. Compatibility ------------- Version 1.1pre11 is compatible with 1.0pre8, 1.0 and later, but not with older versions of tinc. When the ExperimentalProtocol option is used, tinc is still compatible with 1.0.X and 1.1pre11 itself, but not with any other 1.1preX version. Requirements ------------ In order to compile tinc, you will need a GNU C compiler environment. Please ensure you have the latest stable versions of all the required libraries: - OpenSSL (http://www.openssl.org/) version 1.0.0 or later, with support for elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) and Galois counter mode (GCM) enabled. The following libraries are used by default, but can be disabled if necessary: - zlib (http://www.gzip.org/zlib/) - lzo (http://www.oberhumer.com/opensource/lzo/) - ncurses (http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/) - readline (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/readline/) Features -------- Tinc is a peer-to-peer VPN daemon that supports VPNs with an arbitrary number of nodes. Instead of configuring tunnels, you give tinc the location and public key of a few nodes in the VPN. After making the initial connections to those nodes, tinc will learn about all other nodes on the VPN, and will make connections automatically. When direct connections are not possible, data will be forwarded by intermediate nodes. By default, nodes authenticate each other using 2048 bit RSA (or 521 bit ECDSA*) keys. Traffic is encrypted using Blowfish in CBC mode (or AES-256 in GCM mode*), authenticated using HMAC-SHA1 (or GCM*), and is protected against replay attacks. *) When using the ExperimentalProtocol option. Tinc fully supports IPv6. Tinc can operate in several routing modes. In the default mode, "router", every node is associated with one or more IPv4 and/or IPv6 Subnets. The other two modes, "switch" and "hub", let the tinc daemons work together to form a virtual Ethernet network switch or hub. Normally, when started tinc will detach and run in the background. In a native Windows environment this means tinc will intall itself as a service, which will restart after reboots. To prevent tinc from detaching or running as a service, use the -D option. The status of the VPN can be queried using the "tinc" command, which connects to a running tinc daemon via a control connection. The same tool also makes it easy to start and stop tinc, and to change its configuration.