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Ideally, the VPN Protocol should be secure, functional, and fast. But there is another factor: popularity. An unpopular Protocol is harder to implement and maintain: its software needs to be installed and configured, and users and administrators need to be trained.
Sometimes protocols become popular despite their technical shortcomings, simply because of aggressive promotion by a large company. Sometimes, on the other hand, the Protocol of independent developers solves such a pressing problem of some part of users that it quickly gains popularity by itself. This is what happened with OpenVPN or WireGuard.
Some protocols are losing popularity. Some never become widely known, sometimes deservedly, sometimes not. In this article, we will talk about several such protocols.
The main feature is the automatic construction of a mesh network. Even if there are many nodes in the network, traffic between them will be transmitted directly, and not through a Central server. This can make TINC a working alternative to Dynamic Multi-Point VPN and the aforementioned GETVPN for enterprise networks. Well, or it could, if network hardware vendors and popular free network operating systems supported it.
Sometimes protocols become popular despite their technical shortcomings, simply because of aggressive promotion by a large company. Sometimes, on the other hand, the Protocol of independent developers solves such a pressing problem of some part of users that it quickly gains popularity by itself. This is what happened with OpenVPN or WireGuard.
Some protocols are losing popularity. Some never become widely known, sometimes deservedly, sometimes not. In this article, we will talk about several such protocols.
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TINC
Most VPN protocols rely on point - to-point or star topologies. Mesh networks are still quite an exotic scenario. Nevertheless, protocols for these purposes exist and are being developed. The TINC project has been developed since 1998. This means that it is older than OpenVPN, which released its first version in 2001. It supports Windows and all UNIX-like operating systems, but it doesn't have mobile OS versions.The main feature is the automatic construction of a mesh network. Even if there are many nodes in the network, traffic between them will be transmitted directly, and not through a Central server. This can make TINC a working alternative to Dynamic Multi-Point VPN and the aforementioned GETVPN for enterprise networks. Well, or it could, if network hardware vendors and popular free network operating systems supported it.
