Strange tinc behavior on OSX Yosemite

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Mon Apr 6 20:47:31 CEST 2015


On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 04:52:44PM +0100, Etienne Dechamps wrote:

> [...] If you
> switch to a TUN device, the problem will go away as TUN devices are L3
> (IP) and therefore don't use Ethernet headers - the only downside is
> that you probably won't be able to use broadcasts (on Linux at least -
> maybe Mac OS X can send/receive broadcasts on L3 devices).

Linux can send/receive broadcast packets on L3 interfaces just fine.
However, the few programs that do want to send broadcasts on all
interfaces, like avahi, usually ignore point-to-point interfaces.

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