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ntop / n2n

n2n

Peer-to-peer VPN

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
7.1KGitHub stars
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What it is

Peer-to-peer VPN

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-05-11 06:33:39 UTC to 2022-08-04 16:15:48 UTC.

0122018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

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Nothing about this website really gives a whole lot of confidence. It claims to be "Started from US", but the broken English that's prevalent on every single page says otherwise, there's no information about what company is supposedly behind its creation, and the webserver is behind cloudflare. Both the git repo and the website proper are filled with broken links and errors, text that does exist readably is close to complete nonsense. > Traffic over OmniEdge is end-to-end encrypted by Twofish/AES128/ChaCha20 cipers' P2P MESH network. I'm grasping at straws to find a single thing which looks legitimate about it. You'd have to be completely nuts to even begin looking into this as a solution for anything. If you're interested in what the technology behind this is, it's just a thin veneer of https://github.com/ntop/n2n.
In OmniEdge – an Open source P2P layer 2 VPN infrastructure based on n2n protocol
> Is what makes this a "P2P" VPN [...] that it supports the group/"community" network behavior? More or less! Compared to say OpenVPN there is no central server that all traffic is routed through (unless you choose to activate TURN of course, see the `--force-relay` flag), so hosting it is much cheaper as the only public part of the infrastructure is the part that exchanges the candidates ^^ Its pretty close to how n2n[1] does it, but has proper NAT hole punching support due to the WebRTC backend. > When you do that, are you building a full-connected overlay network [...] Yes! Its a full mesh; it seems to scale pretty well to a fairly large number of nodes, although I haven't tested it with more than ~100 peers in a single community yet. If the overhead of maintaining all of the connections is too much or peering between nodes in an issue
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, TURN can help to connect those peers with the rest of the mesh. Orchid looks interesting! [1] https://github.com/ntop/n2n
In Show HN: Weron – A Peer-to-Peer VPN Based on WebRTC Written in Go

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