The Promised LAN

ericdiao wrote: post #5

Really want to know the rationale of choosing IPSec over Wireguard. IPSec is really tricky to get right (IMO). Maybe legacy issue?

They probably use L2TP with IPsec to get Layer 2 transit. Doing that over Wireguard would require Gretep or something similar

Re: The Promised LAN

#7

Post by CursedSilicon » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 6:43 PM UTC

No description of the games they even play? It's an interesting idea. But it sounds like one big "no girls allowed" kind of treehouse with how minimally forthcoming they are about documentation

Re: The Promised LAN

#8

Post by giantg2 » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 6:49 PM UTC

CursedSilicon wrote: post #7

No description of the games they even play? It's an interesting idea. But it sounds like one big "no girls allowed" kind of treehouse with how minimally forthcoming they are about documentation

Seems more like a semi-private friends-of-friends network. It wouldn't be surprising if it turned out to have skewed representations as most of these do by nature of the semi-private nature.

Re: The Promised LAN

#9

Post by dewey » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 6:56 PM UTC

CursedSilicon wrote: post #7

No description of the games they even play? It's an interesting idea. But it sounds like one big "no girls allowed" kind of treehouse with how minimally forthcoming they are about documentation

It doesn't necessarily look like something that was built to be submitted to HN or be interesting to outsiders.

Re: The Promised LAN

#10

Post by ericdiao » Wed, Jul 23, 2025, 7:04 PM UTC

CursedSilicon wrote: post #6

ericdiao wrote: post #5

Really want to know the rationale of choosing IPSec over Wireguard. IPSec is really tricky to get right (IMO). Maybe legacy issue?

They probably use L2TP with IPsec to get Layer 2 transit. Doing that over Wireguard would require Gretep or something similar

Oh this make sense. For LAN, one definitely want L2. Totally overlooked the objective.