scalability and bandwidth usage?

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Hello All,

How are you all doing today? Good i hope.

I am wondering if some one could please comment on the scalability 
limitations of Tinc as far as bandwidth usage and connections?

Thinking about the documentation on Tinc suggests that if it is always 
trying to maintain a full mesh topology and if there would be many 
nodes, e.g. more than about 100 or so active at a give time, then Tinc 
might consume a lot of resources on that single node processor along 
with trying to maintain all 100 connections which could eat up much 
needed bandwidth that may not be utilized.

I suspect that there should be a way to have Tinc be aware of the 
possible connections to other nodes, but not actually make the 
connection to a particular node via "ConnectTO" until it is actually need.

Any comments or ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Lonnie