Patch for tunnelserver mode in protocol_subnet.c

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Wed Apr 13 16:10:53 CEST 2005


On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:58:03PM +0200, Thomas NOEL wrote:

> >Tinc relies on the fact that every node in the VPN has the view of the
> >VPN, ie. they all know the same list of nodes, subnets and edges.
> >If some nodes have a different view, then the graph algorithms can't
> >guarantee correct routing anymore. So it is never good to ignore faulty
> >data from other nodes.
> 
> But others nodes can't know that I'm a tunnelserver.
> So tunnelserver must "ignore faulty data"...
> 
> Or maybe tunnelserver imply that all nodes are tunnelserver ?

Other nodes don't have to know you're a tunnelserver, the only thing
they need to do is to only connect to the tunnelserver and not to
each other.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
    Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.eu.org>
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