tier6

Build a global ethernet network using sanctum p2p e2ee tunnels.

Tier6 uses the sanctum protocol and its cathedrals to autodiscover peers in the same flock and establish p2p e2ee tunnels to each peer in full mesh mode. All incoming traffic is dumped into a single tap interface. Return traffic is only sent to peers on which the destination MAC address has been seen as a source earlier, acting like a soft-switch.

   +--------+     p2p e2ee     +--------+
   | node 1 | <--------------> | node 2 |
   +--------+                  +--------+
         ^  ^                  ^  ^
         |  |____           ___|  |
         |      v           v     |
         |     +-------------+    |
         |     |   virtual   |    |
p2p e2ee |     |   ethernet  |    | p2p e2ee
         |     +-------------+    |
         |            ^           |
         |            |           |
         |       +--------+       |
         +-----> | node 3 | <-----+
                 +--------+

Tier6 is only L2, it does not autoconfigure your interfaces. You are in charge of that.

For details on how the underlying tunnels works see docs/crypto.md in the sanctum repository.

Building

Tier6 works on Linux, OpenBSD and MacOS.

You need libkyrka and pkg-config installed, plus whatever libs libkyrka needed (eg: libsodium).

$ make

Note: Use gmake on OpenBSD.

Configuration

You need a cathedral setup to run this, once you have the relevant files you can create a simple configuration. See the example configuration in this repository.

A community cathedral network can be found at The Reliquary.

The configuration supports reliquary file paths out of the box.

Running

# tier6 t6.conf