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Design rationale

• Very small binary (about 100KB on OpenWrt in the default configuration, including all dependencies besides libc)
• Exchangable crypto methods
• Transport over UDP for simple usage behind NAT
• Can run in 1:1 and 1:n scenarios
• There are no server and client roles defined by the protocol, this is just defined by the usage.
  • Only one instance of the daemon is needed on each host to create a full mesh
  • If no full mesh is established, a routing protocol is necessary to enable hosts that are not connected directly to reach each other

Documentation

All documentation can be found at https://fastd.readthedocs.io/

See also: Benchmarks

Binary repositories

• Debian: Available in the main repository since Debian Stretch
• Arch: Available in the in the community repository
• OpenWrt/LEDE: Available in the packages repository at https://github.com/openwrt/packages
• OpenSUSE:
  • http://software.opensuse.org/package/libuecc
  • http://software.opensuse.org/package/fastd
• Fedora 22: Included in the default repository
• RHEL, CentOS, Scientific Linux, ...: Included in EPEL 7