LAN Sharing

PackVault allows you to share your cached packages with other devices on your local network. This is incredibly useful for team environments or when working with multiple machines.

Starting a Host

To share your vault, simply start the host service:

packvault share

This will spin up a lightweight server on your machine and broadcast its presence over mDNS.

Discovering Peers

From another machine on the same network, you can discover available PackVault hosts:

packvault discover

Connecting to a Peer

Once you've found a host (or if you know its IP address), you can connect to it and synchronize your vaults:

packvault connect 192.168.1.25

This will act as a one-way sync, pulling packages from the host into your local vault.

Bidirectional Sync

If you want both machines to share the packages they've uniquely cached, use bidirectional sync:

packvault connect 192.168.1.25 --bidirectional

Security

LAN sharing in PackVault can be secured using peer authentication tokens to ensure only authorized machines can connect to your vault.