mycelium

End-2-end encrypted P2P IPv6 overlay network

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