is ironwood similar to pinecone

[LonnieTC]

Hello,

I have been experimenting with pinecone (https://github.com/matrix-org/pinecone) a bit briefly and was able to make some connections between nodes on same network, but had problems connecting to a pinecone instance running on a wan vps server with public ip so I started research solutions and came across ironwood.

I am seeking an overlay mesh network that will also relay through existing nodes like pinecone and yggdrasil but not requiring a tun/tap installation. Pinecone is supposed to do this, and I am wondering if ironwood can do the same?

If so, then I would like to compile it up to see if I can make connections to some systems that I have (Windows and Linux) and if the connections go well then maybe try some way to pass messages or packets to one, more than one, and all nodes on the overlay network.

Can you please let me know more about ironwood and its capabilities as I need something like this for a project that is in the works now?

Thanks and have a great day