<div dir="ltr">Hi Sebastian,<div><br></div><div>I haven't tried it out yet and it's still a very young project, but this might be worth watching: <a href="https://github.com/juanfont/headscale">https://github.com/juanfont/headscale</a></div><div><br></div><div>It's a project to create an open source, self-hosted version of Tailscale.</div><div><br></div><div>Les</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 21 Sept 2021 at 13:15, Sebastian Arcus via Liverpool <<a href="mailto:liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk">liverpool@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Maybe a topic to chat about at one of the future meetings. I am looking <br>
for an open source vpn software which can send vpn traffic between <br>
clients directly - without all the traffic flowing through the server. <br>
Ideally the software should:<br>
<br>
1. Have a server involved<br>
2. The server is on a static public IP with open port(s) to the internet<br>
3. The server helps clients find each other<br>
4. The server might control the authentication between clients and do <br>
the initial connection setup<br>
5. But then, the rest of the traffic should flow directly from client to <br>
client<br>
6. The clients don't need to be on public and/or static IP's, and don't <br>
need ports open to the internet<br>
7. Both Windows and Linux support is needed at client end. Android and <br>
iPhones would be a bonus, but not essential.<br>
<br>
The idea would be for the bandwidth between clients not to be restricted <br>
by the speed of the connection of the server to the internet - as the <br>
bulk of the traffic would be flowing directly from client to client.<br>
<br>
This is the model ZeroTier uses - but ZeroTier started as <br>
semi-opensource and now it has become even more restrictive and unusable <br>
- they even disallowed commercial usage for self hosted controllers.<br>
<br>
I've looked into it but I don't think there is a way to make OpenVPN or <br>
WireGuard work as per above. They would be my preferred options. FreeLAN <br>
appears promising, but there seems to be almost no usable documentation.<br>
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