crashing on receiving connection

Guus Sliepen guus at sliepen.warande.net
Thu Mar 8 22:18:28 CET 2001


On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 10:00:01PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> > > Subnet = 192.168.1.0/24
> 
> > > Subnet = 192.168.0.0/16
[...]
> Errr, I was editing the files while typing the mail and pasted a wrong
> version. I use ...1.0/24 of course.
> 
> > Furthermore, 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 and 192.168.1.2/255.255.255.0 overlap!
> 
> And why? IIRC tap0 is an emulated Ethernet divice, so I choosed IPs and
> netmasks which I would take for an ethernet network with 2 or more
> network cards (or even emulated ones). IMHO, network 192.168.1.0 with
> netmask: 255.255.255.0 and broadcast: 192.168.1.255, so we have an IP
> range from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.254. I just want to have to
> (virtuall) network cards (tap devices) which are really connected trough
> the SSL tunnel in userspace instead of cable. This is my point of view.

Ok, but then you should use Subnet = 192.168.1.1/32 and Subnet =
192.168.1.2/32, because the Subnets indicate which parts of the virtual
network (192.168.1.0/24) belong to which tinc daemon.

Btw, it's not exactly an SSL tunnel.

> > 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.
> 
> I tried it with and without arp, with /16 and /24 netmask, nothing
> helps. So the config again, both systems has identical hosts files:

Use /32 subnets.

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  Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.warande.net>
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