Bug 15522

Summary: tinc, VPN daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet
Product: Mageia Reporter: Pavel Kreuzt <pkreuzt>
Component: New RPM package requestAssignee: All Packagers <pkg-bugs>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: Normal CC: mike.crecelius, nton13051
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
URL: http://tinc-vpn.org/
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Description Pavel Kreuzt 2015-03-18 23:46:04 CET 
tinc is a Virtual Private Network (VPN) daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet. tinc is Free Software and licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 or later. Because the VPN appears to the IP level network code as a normal network device, there is no need to adapt any existing software. This allows VPN sites to share information with each other over the Internet without exposing any information to others. In addition, tinc has the following features:

- Encryption, authentication and compression
All traffic is optionally compressed using zlib or LZO, and OpenSSL is used to encrypt the traffic and protect it from alteration with message authentication codes and sequence numbers.

- Automatic full mesh routing
Regardless of how you set up the tinc daemons to connect to each other, VPN traffic is always (if possible) sent directly to the destination, without going through intermediate hops.

- Easily expand your VPN
When you want to add nodes to your VPN, all you have to do is add an extra configuration file, there is no need to start new daemons or create and configure new devices or network interfaces.

- Ability to bridge ethernet segments
You can link multiple ethernet segments together to work like a single segment, allowing you to run applications and games that normally only work on a LAN over the Internet.

- Runs on many operating systems and supports IPv6
Currently Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, MacOS/X, Solaris, Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 and 8 platforms are supported. See our section about supported platforms for more information about the state of the ports. tinc has also full support for IPv6, providing both the possibility of tunneling IPv6 traffic over its tunnels and of creating tunnels over existing IPv6 networks.

Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Mike Crecelius 2015-04-05 03:04:57 CEST

CC: (none) => mike.crecelius

Mike Crecelius 2015-04-05 03:06:30 CEST

Summary: tinc package request => tinc, VPN daemon that uses tunnelling and encryption to create a secure private network between hosts on the Internet

Comment 1 Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-11 20:55:58 CEST 
Assigning this package request to all packagers collectively. On a voluntary basis, one of them might want to integrate it to the distribution and maintain it for bug and security fixes.

You might also want to join the packager team to maintain this piece of software: see https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2016-11-02 09:29:14 CET 
Sorry, bugs@ml and pkg-bugs@ml members, for the avalanche.

72 bugs with the "New RPM package request" component, had a severity of "normal" or more, which can lead to losing precious time when searching Bugzilla for bugs that urgently need to get fixed

Now mass-changing that to "enhancement", as it should be for package requests.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_report_a_bug_properly#How_to_file_a_package_request

@ the reporter of this package request

Please check in http://madb.mageia.org/ whether this software did already get packaged, and close this bug report if it did.
Please do also close it if you find a package with the same purpose, that meets your needs.

Severity: normal => enhancement

Comment 3 John Klein 2022-08-27 18:41:19 CEST Comment hidden (spam)

CC: (none) => nton13051