EasyTier – P2P mesh VPN written in Rust using Tokio • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by zanfr » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 3:39 PM UTC

akie wrote: post #6

Aren't you making yourself vulnerable to unknowingly sending (potentially loads of) illicit traffic from your ip address into the world? I'm not sure if I'd be up for that, to be honest...

can't quite figure out exactly the ins and outs but it seems to masquerade as wireguard. which would make VPNs redundant as it would itself be a VPN.

this would mean, for instance, torrents that are wireguarded between peers by default. sure you will see tons of IPs connected via wireguard but who is going to bother intercepting them?

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

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Post by dpc_01234 » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 5:27 PM UTC

The primary use case here seems to be connecting bunch of your own devices so they have direct connectivity over a VPN, just like Tailscale and Zerotier, etc.

I don't know why people focus on Tor and censorship associations. The meaning of a VPN is just a virtual network between devices, not anonymization.

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

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Post by jrm4 » Tue, Jun 03, 2025, 8:56 PM UTC

jxjnskkzxxhx wrote: post #50

jrm4 wrote: post #31

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?

They do different things, I hear? I know Wireguard works closer to the kernel, but it's more of a traditional "VPN" otherwise, and you'd have to add "mesh."

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

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Post by remram » Wed, Jun 04, 2025, 2:08 PM UTC

jxjnskkzxxhx wrote: post #50

jrm4 wrote: post #31

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?

Tinc will exchange endpoint information over the network, so clients will connect directly to other clients without having to set up every connection explicitly. For example, if A is configured to connect to B, and C is configured to connect to B, then A can connect to C to exchange packets directly without you having to configure that. https://tinc-vpn.org/documentation-1.1/How-connections-work....

Tinc will also do a layer 2 tunnel if you want (tap) while wireguard is only layer 3 (no broadcast/multicast).

The big con of tinc (and most VPN solutions) compared to wireguard is performance. Wireguard is a small kernel module which can process traffic very fast.