Any way to run tinc on MikroTik routers?

[Rafael Wolf]

Have whomever insists on the Mikrotik solution to manage it 🤣.

Why not get a pfsense appliance instead? Tinc I'd an easy add on package
included in the package manager.

Then you'd satisfy their hardware requirement + your tinc need.





On Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 6:02 AM Răzvan Sandu <rsandu2007 at gmail.com wrote:

> *hvjunk said:*
>
> > Get a RPi (or faster/cheaper/equivalent), and bridge it into the Mikrotik……….
>
> Unfortunately, I don't think this is an option (even if I may put there a full PC, not only a Raspberry Pi), for a few reasons:
>
> - what I'm trying to achieve is to substitute MikroTik's native L2TP/IPSec tunnels with tinc, not to have TWO tunnels
>
> - supposing I have two different tunnels to the same destination, I can't imagine a way to route traffic between them (since in tinc routing is fully automatic and elegant, point-top-point L2TP/IPSec is very inflexible)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Răzvan
>
>
>
>
> În vin., 16 nov. 2018 la 12:32, Răzvan Sandu <rsandu2007 at gmail.com> a
> scris:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please excuse my (probably newbie) question, but:
>>
>> Since RouterOS, MikroTik's proprietary OS, is largely based on GNU/Linux,
>> anyone knows a way to run tinc on a MikroTik device?
>>
>> This would be in order to make an (imposed, no choice given...) MikroTik
>> device (say the B1100AHX4 router) to participate in a tinc mesh, in
>> interoperation with GNU/Linux machines.
>>
>> Please see:
>>
>> https://mikrotik.com/
>> https://mikrotik.com/product/rb1100ahx4
>>
>> (Confession: after using tinc for a few years, on a few dozen free
>> software machines, going back to point-to-point L2TP/IPSec tunnels, even
>> with Strongswan, would be a NIGHTMARE. This is just because someone in the
>> organization insists in using hardware routers and proprietary software...
>> So this is a cry for help ;-)   )
>>
>> Friendly regards,
>> Răzvan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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