# About tinc
-Tinc is a peer-to-peer VPN daemon that supports VPNs with an arbitrary number
-of nodes. Instead of configuring tunnels, you give tinc the location and
-public key of a few nodes in the VPN. After making the initial connections to
-those nodes, tinc will learn about all other nodes on the VPN, and will make
-connections automatically. When direct connections are not possible, data will
-be forwarded by intermediate nodes.
+Tinc is a peer-to-peer VPN daemon that supports VPNs with an arbitrary number of
+nodes. Instead of configuring tunnels, you give tinc the location and public key
+of a few nodes in the VPN. After making the initial connections to those nodes,
+tinc will learn about all other nodes on the VPN, and will make connections
+automatically. When direct connections are not possible, data will be forwarded
+by intermediate nodes.
Tinc can operate in several routing modes. In the default mode, "router", every
node is associated with one or more IPv4 and/or IPv6 Subnets. The other two
Please note that this is NOT a stable release. Until version 1.1.0 is released,
please use one of the 1.0.x versions if you need a stable version of tinc.
-Although tinc 1.1 will be protocol compatible with tinc 1.0.x, the
-functionality of the tinc program may still change, and the control socket
-protocol is not fixed yet.
+Although tinc 1.1 will be protocol compatible with tinc 1.0.x, the functionality
+of the tinc program may still change, and the control socket protocol is not
+fixed yet.
# Documentation
-See [QUICKSTART.md](QUICKSTART.md) for a quick guide to get tinc up and
-running. Read the [manual](https://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation-1.1/) for
-more detailed information.
+See [QUICKSTART.md](QUICKSTART.md) for a quick guide to get tinc up and running.
+Read the [manual](https://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation-1.1/) for more detailed
+information.
# Getting tinc
- [latest release](https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc/releases/latest)
Note that these packages have not been heavily tested and are not officially
-supported by the project. Use them at your own risk. You are advised to use
-tinc shipped by your distribution, or build from source.
+supported by the project. Use them at your own risk. You are advised to use tinc
+shipped by your distribution, or build from source.
## Build it from source
# Copyright
-tinc is Copyright © 1998-2022 Ivo Timmermans, Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>, and others.
+tinc is Copyright © 1998-2022 Ivo Timmermans, Guus Sliepen <guus@tinc-vpn.org>,
+and others.
For a complete list of authors see the [AUTHORS](AUTHORS) file.
-This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
-your option) any later version. See the file COPYING for more details.
+This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
+the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
+Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
+version. See the file COPYING for more details.