Mesh and scalability

[Johannes Ernst]

Is there some information somewhere that explains just how exactly the “full mesh routing” works?

It seems to me that if Node B is supposed to be able to send stuff directly to Node C (instead of Node A), Node B needs to know where Node C is. Does this mean that each Node has to have a complete network map? This seems to become very unwieldy with larger deployments.

How far does tinc reasonably scale up, in terms of nodes?

Also, what happens if some of those Nodes keep changing their IP address, e.g. because they are on laptops moving from WiFi hotspot to hotspot, and the like?

(I’m new to this; I’m trying to figure out whether tinc is right for a project …)

Thanks,



Johannes.