Feature #9227
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Please include Tinc in base pfSense, as a standard way of configuring tunnels
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Description
Tinc software ([[https://tinc-vpn.org/]]) is an excellent and easy way of configuring SSL tunnels to various other network equipments.
In summary, a Tinc-created mesh is perfectly equivalent to multiple OpenVPN tunnels, with benefits added: indeed, Tinc may be seen as "multipoint OpenVPN" or "OpenVPN mesh".
An optional Tinc package already exists for pfSense (in the official repository), although there is room for its improvement, to make its configuration more straightforward from the web interface.
I suggest Tinc is worth to be included in Base pfSense, directly in the VPN menu, along with other existing technologies for configuring tunnels, such as IPSec, PPTP, GRE or OpenVPN.
On GNU/Linux and other OSes, the Tinc package:
- is already multi-platform (even on Windows, Android and various GNU/Linux widely-used distros)
- has an extremely easy to use way of configuring, in common VPN scenarios such as multiple-branch companies that need mesh connectivity.
Best regards,
Răzvan
Updated by Flole Systems almost 6 years ago
I don't see the advantage by installing it by default, the whole purpose of packages is to make the base system not to blown-up, there are a few great packages but adding them all to the base system would totally be against the purpose of the packages plus you will get updates less frequently, overall more harm than use.
Updated by Jim Pingle over 5 years ago
- Project changed from pfSense to pfSense Packages
- Category set to Tinc
- Status changed from New to Rejected
There is no advantage to importing it into the base system. It can remain a package and do all it needs to do. Any improvements it needs can be done to the package.