crashing on receiving connection

[Guus Sliepen]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 02:13:19PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> Okay, I must say, I had problems with the examples and the info help:
> there are some discrepancies, absolete hints and the variable names are
> wrong. In short, I volunteer to rewrite the documentation and create a
> mini-HOWTO if tinc will work for me ;)

The texinfo documentation in the pre3 package is outdated, the website
contains a newer version. We are working on it ourselves as well :) If you
wish to contribute to the documentation, we would rather see a german
translation of the program and docs.

> hosts/zomb:
> 
> Subnet = 192.168.1.0/24

> hosts/home:
> 
> Subnet = 192.168.0.0/16

> Now, zomb has a vpn device with ip: 192.168.1.1 and netmask:
> 255.255.255.0. home has ip 192.168.1.2, same netmask. Now, I want to

Ehm, what you say is not what I see above (one /24 and one /16 netmask).
Furthermore, 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 and 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0 overlap!

> PING 192.168.1.2 (192.168.1.2): 56 data bytes
> Mar  8 14:11:39 localhost tinc.vpn[1835]: Read packet of length 46 from tap device
> Mar  8 14:11:39 localhost tinc.vpn[1835]: Trying to look up 242.63.192.168 in connection list failed!

Ok, this is an error message which should actually say something else, but you
are using ARP on the tap device. You should turn that off (ifconfig tap0 -arp
or ifconfig $NETNAME -arp if you use devfs). It's not explained in the docs because
before 2.4 kernels the tap device had ARP disabled by default.

> So, which part of my configuration is still wrong?

Add that extra ifconfig line to the tinc-up script.

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  Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.warande.net>
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