Routing

[digi]

Hello,

>From the docs, it seems that tinc handles routing itself. Do users need to 
add any routing entries for tunnels at all?

Here is sample scenario. There are six gateways A, B, C, D, E, and F 
connected using tinc. Each gateway is has a separate network attached to it 
and the connections are as follows:

E<-->F
^
|
v
A <--> B <--> C <--> D
^             +
|             |
+-------------+

A, B, C, D, E, and F represent 10.1.{1,2,3,4,5,and 6}.0/24 networks, 
respectively.

Here are my questions:

1. Will tinc handle routing in this case correctly since there is a loop?

2. Since A does not know about D, will tinc propagate routes for D to A?

3. In order to reach D, is tinc going to send packets to B or C (ACD is a 
shorter path).

4. What kind of algorithm does tinc use to propagate routing information? 
Distance vector or link-state maybe?

Thanks,
Oleg Kolesnikov

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