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Overlay Network

Feb 11, 20231 min read

  • seed
  • pattern

A network that is layered on top of another network

Normally on top of HTTP. Fun fact! The Internet was originally built as an overlay upon the telephone network

Examples:

  • VPN

    • WireGuard
  • OpenZiti

  • ZeroTier

  • Tailscale (or the open source version Headscale)

  • Almost all peer-to-peer distributed systems

    • Most notably, DHTs

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