I found this other benchmark[1] that places them much closer to native WG performance, with Netmaker still in the lead, and somehow faster than a direct connection. This is probably due more to Netmaker using the in-kernel WG, instead of the userspace implementation. I'm kind of curious to give it a try, TBH. :)
Hell, even OpenVPN is _much_ faster than that[2,3].
Also, yeah, tinc development has been slow for years now, but I didn't experience any issues with the prerelease versions. It's certainly behind the times now, but I also enjoyed how easy it was to configure and use.
[1]: https://techoverflow.net/2022/08/19/iperf-benchmark-of-zerot...
[2]: https://www.zerotier.com/blog/benchmarking-zerotier-vs-openv...
The folks over at the Nebula team had an interesting discussion regarding the the "battle of the VPNs" article published by Netmaker I sourced in my parent comment:
I actually looked into tinc, and really wanted to love it because of its simplicity.
Unfortunately though, it seems that the development scene around it has been stalled for several years now, and benchmark reports show that it can't keep up with cloud speed tests when compared with Wireguard:
- Wireguard: 390.3 Mbps
- Netmarker: 369.3 Mbps
- Tailscale: 62.5 Mbps
- ZeroTier: 56.8 Mbps
- Nebula: 38.4 Mbps
- Tinc: 34.7 Mbps
- OpenVPN: 22.3 Mbps
Source: [disclaimer, article written by Netmaker CEO, so implicit bias]
(https://medium.com/netmaker/battle-of-the-vpns-which-one-is-...)