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EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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This seems to go into a similar direction like ZeroTier, but actually open source. There is almost no discussion of this in the western hemisphere, but I'd be interested what people think about it.

Can you elaborate on what you mean by "no discussion in the western hemisphere"? Zerotier is fairly well known in the US.

But EasyTier is not.

Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

VPNs in their basic sense are legal in China, many large companies provide them/use them and so on. VPNs designed to bypass the Firewall without government approval are a subset of VPNs which the police do not like.

OK so real VPNs are illegal. Then you have a subsets of VPNs that are regulated by the CCP and therefor legal. And useless for many use-cases.

I would assume EasyTier devs use it to connect their devices within China so the great firewall isn't involved. Attempts to cross the firewall with EasyTier are detectable without things like Tor's pluggable censorship evasion transports.

Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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What are some notable uses of P2P these days? You don't hear about it much any more. I believe P2P rose to prominence two decades ago as a response to the cost of bandwidth. I wonder if similar methods could effectively overcome the cost of compute for LLMs. Here are two projects I found from a quick search: Serving: https://petals.dev/ Training: https://github.com/learning-at-home/hivemind

Cloud bandwidth is still crazy expensive if you use big cloud, and a lot of people think that’s all there is.

There are a lot of things that do P2P under the hood, usually with cloud relay fallback so it always works. You just don’t hear much about it because it’s not a selling point, just an under the hood detail.

Re: EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio

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Anyone know how this compares to Tinc? I don't much know what development on it is like these days, but it for me is one of the best "set it and forget it" things I regularly use to keep my devices talking to each other. I'm aware that with things like this you're supposed to use the latest and greatest like Wireguard or whatever, but nothing really does the p2p thing as easy as Tinc, and given secondary encryption m…

Firs time I'm hearing about tinc, looks great. How does it compare to wireguard? Pros and cons?
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