tinc devel - Apr 2007 - compression

Hi,

posted a message to the tinc list few days ago, but seems that there is not
that much going on on that list, so I try here.

The homepage of tinc says it compresses all traffic, but the manpage says
that it only compresses UDP packets.
Which one is true?

Another thing, how much active development is going on with tinc at the
moment? I see that "version 2" is mentioned.
Or is there another tinc-like VPN solution into which all new development
effort is going?

or maybe tinc is just finished? (seems pretty much finished to me, always
works).

Cheers,
Jeroen.
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Jeroen Vriesman wrote:
> The homepage of tinc says it compresses all traffic, but the manpage 
> says that it only compresses UDP packets.
> Which one is true?
Tinc uses a TCP connection for control purposes and UDP packets for 
transmitting that encapsulated VPN traffic. It's those UDP packets that 
get compressed if the Compression option is set to something other than 0.

The documentation for the Compression option isn't very clear about what 
"UDP packets" means; all VPN traffic is definitely compressed.

Note that if TCPOnly is used then all VPN traffic is sent via the TCP 
control channel. In this case compression can't be used.

Menno


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