Tinc Note

How connections work

Keep at least 3 working meta-connections alive at all times.

You can view a tinc daemon without a ‘ConnectTo’ statement in tinc.conf and ‘AutoConnect = no’ as a server, and one which does have one or more ‘ConnectTo’ statements or ‘Autoconnect = yes’ (which is the default) as a client.

Connections specified using ‘ConnectTo’ are so-called meta-connections.

Tinc daemons exchange information about all other daemon they know about via these meta-connections.

All nodes in the VPN will be able to talk to each other, as long as there is a path of meta-connections between them.

Whenever possible, two nodes will communicate with each other directly.