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Four steps to your first connection

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1. Install

On both machines:

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2. Log in

vpncli uses your Monolex identity — the same login as the rest of the estate. No ssh keys, no per-machine accounts.
Do this on both machines, signed in as the same identity.

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3. Host the machine you want to reach

On the target machine (the one you want to connect to), make it reachable:
service install keeps the machine online automatically. Now it advertises itself so your other machines can find it.

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4. Connect

From your other machine:
That’s it — you’re on the remote machine, over an encrypted peer-to-peer link.

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Check reachability

If a machine shows [stale], on that machine run:

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Next

Commands

shell, exec, mosh, tunnel — with examples.

Security

What “encrypted end to end” actually means here.