Tinc ported to maemo
 

I have ported the tinc VPN software (see http://www.tinc-vpn.org/) to the OS2006 environment. tinc is a lightweight VPN, although it does not use SecureIP or interoperate with other VPN software.

You can find it in my personal repository:

• Repository: http://www.cobb.uk.net/apt/
• Distribution: mistral
• Component: user
• Package: tinc

This was created just by rebuilding the current Debian unstable tinc package under scratchbox. Note that the package includes the documentation but that the installer will delete it -- I presume that anyone who wants this already knows how to use and set it up.

Although this tinc package works (for me, at least) I have not included any way to turn it on and off. I do not recommend configuring tinc to start at boot as I have not tested that and do not know whether it interacts properly with the Maemo networking features. Currently I start it by logging in to an Xterm and issuing:
Stop using:
Of course this requires the following line in /etc/sudoers:
If/when I have time I will look into a way of adding start tinc and stop tinc entries to the menu.

By the way, porting tinc also required porting liblzo2 and liblzo2-dev so you will also find them in my repository (along with texi2html which is needed to build tinc).

I would be interested to know if anyone else uses this - please reply here if you do.

Graham

I haven't been through the entire doc yet, but maybe you know : is it possible to tunnel tinc through an https proxy (port 443) while setting a custom useragent, as with OpenVPN ?

No, I don't believe so. I think tinc requires a clear UDP or TCP connection.

Graham

OK, thanks for saving me the trouble :-)

New tinc version
 

There is an updated version of tinc available, which includes a mechanism to automatically start/stop tinc networks when particular WLAN connections are established or disconnected. See http://www.cobb.uk.net/770/index.html for more information.

Graham