[Liverpool] OpenVPN with p2p traffic?

[Les Pritchard]

Hi Sebastian,

I haven't tried it out yet and it's still a very young project, but this
might be worth watching: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

It's a project to create an open source, self-hosted version of Tailscale.

Les

On Tue, 21 Sept 2021 at 13:15, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool <
liverpool at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Maybe a topic to chat about at one of the future meetings. I am looking
> for an open source vpn software which can send vpn traffic between
> clients directly - without all the traffic flowing through the server.
> Ideally the software should:
>
> 1. Have a server involved
> 2. The server is on a static public IP with open port(s) to the internet
> 3. The server helps clients find each other
> 4. The server might control the authentication between clients and do
> the initial connection setup
> 5. But then, the rest of the traffic should flow directly from client to
> client
> 6. The clients don't need to be on public and/or static IP's, and don't
> need ports open to the internet
> 7. Both Windows and Linux support is needed at client end. Android and
> iPhones would be a bonus, but not essential.
>
> The idea would be for the bandwidth between clients not to be restricted
> by the speed of the connection of the server to the internet - as the
> bulk of the traffic would be flowing directly from client to client.
>
> This is the model ZeroTier uses - but ZeroTier started as
> semi-opensource and now it has become even more restrictive and unusable
> - they even disallowed commercial usage for self hosted controllers.
>
> I've looked into it but I don't think there is a way to make OpenVPN or
> WireGuard work as per above. They would be my preferred options. FreeLAN
> appears promising, but there seems to be almost no usable documentation.
>
>
>
>
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