mycelium

End-2-end encrypted P2P IPv6 overlay network

System
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Mycelium is an end-to-end encrypted IPv6 overlay network that spans the globe.

Features

  • Locality-aware routing: finds the shortest path between nodes.
  • All traffic is end-to-end encrypted.
  • Can route traffic via friend nodes and is location-aware.
  • Automatic rerouting if a physical link goes down.
  • IPv6 addresses are derived from private keys.
  • A simple, reliable message bus is implemented on top of Mycelium.
  • Supports multiple transports (QUIC, TCP, …). Hole punching for QUIC is in progress to enable true P2P connectivity behind NATs.
  • Designed for planetary-scale scalability; previous overlay networks reached practical limits, and Mycelium focuses on scaling.
  • Can run without a TUN device and be used solely as a reliable message bus.

Example configuration below connects all your machines to the Mycelium network:

mycelium = {
    roles.peer.tags.all = {};
};

Roles

The mycelium service has the following roles:

  • peer

Options for the peer role

addHostedPublicNodes

Add hosted Public nodes

Type: boolean

Default:

true

Declared in: clanServices/mycelium/default.nix

openFirewall

Open the firewall for mycelium

Type: boolean

Default:

true

Declared in: clanServices/mycelium/default.nix