Very slow network speed using Tinc

Florent Bautista florent at coppint.com
Wed Oct 23 12:17:15 CEST 2013


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On 10/22/2013 08:19 PM, Guus Sliepen wrote:
>
>
> Both tinc 1.0 and 1.1 can use hardware AES instructions. However, the
latest
> version of tinc 1.1 from the git repository uses AES in GCM mode, and
if your
> processor also supports the PCLMULQDQ instruction (most of the
processor that
> support AES also support PCLMULQDQ) then this gives an enormous speed
boost.
> There are also processors without AES but with PCLMULQDQ, which still
get a big
> boost. On processors that do not support either of these instructions,
GCM mode
> will still give a small speed boost over the CBC+HMAC mode of
encryption and
> authentication which is used in tinc 1.0.
>
> If you compile tinc 1.1 from git, it will also create a binary called
> "sptps_speed". This will test the performance of the new protocol used
in tinc
> 1.1. The last line of output is the most relevant one, and tells you
the speed
> you can get, although it does not include the overhead of
sending/receiving
> packets to/from the network and the tun/tap device.
>
I will try 1.1... but how I compile it from Git ? No configure script,
no INSTALL file...
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