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new yggdrasil interface.
Int32 (Profile): (2025-10-02 14:11:27 (UTC))
hi, I just wanted to tell y'all that I now have a public yggdrasil interface, which you can use using:
[[Int32 Pi(Ygg)]]
type = TCPClientInterface
enabled = true
target_host = 200:b55c:7e7a:80fe:9e32:cded:55d2:91
target_port = 4242
or you can use the backbone interface, which should be more performant, but only works on linux(including android):
[[Int32 Pi(Ygg)]]
type = BackboneInterface
enabled = yes
target_host = 200:b55c:7e7a:80fe:9e32:cded:55d2:91
target_port = 4242
when you don't use yggdrasil, but just tcp without ifac, your ISP can easily know who you are by the announces you broadcast, but because yggdrasil encrypts the traffic, your ISP can't have the announces and the rest of the Reticulum traffic which means that if you don't use other TCP interfaces that just run over IP, your ISP can't have that information, except maybe with traffic analysis...
How heavy is ygg performance wise? I don't necessarily want to run another (incl tor) chatty network app 24/7.
I looked at the RNS source and it looks like IFAC enabled interfaces paste some kind of random(?) XOR "mask" over packets. I don't think that's the same as encyption.
I don't have any metrics, but I think yggdrasil should be way better than Tor, as it doesn't have any onion routing and stuff.
it's just a mesh network like Reticulum, and the base implementation is written in go so it might be better than Reticulum.
sorry for the late reply.
WARNING: in around 20 minutes I will shut down my server for maintenace; all the services will be back online later today at best, but the maintenace might be for a few days more, depending on my skillz.
I'm currently migrating from raspberry pi os to OpenBSD so I'll have to reinstall/reconfigure quite a lot of stuff.
after 21 days of uptime, I knew I had to do SOMETHING.