compression

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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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