lose connection with traffic from connector to connectee

Guus Sliepen guus at sliepen.warande.net
Wed Feb 20 16:45:05 CET 2002


On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 08:15:10AM -0600, ebina1 wrote:

> >The UDP packets come from the right IP address but from another port
> >(517) instead of from port 655. Is there a masquerading gateway between
> >A and B perhaps? If so, you might need to add "TCPOnly = yes" to hosts/A
> >on B.
> >
> There is a linksys firewall box and cable modem between A and B,
> but this doesn't seem to explain why initiating traffic from B to A
> makes traffic from A to B work.  Also, if the ConnectTo is removed from
> A's .conf file and added to B's .conf file then A to B always works
> which I assume would not be the case if the fault was the linksys firewall.

Hm. If you get these UDP from unknown source messages again, could you
do a tcpdump on B to see if tinc sends out UDP packets from port 517 or
port 655? If they come from 655, but A receives them and they appear to
come from 517, then you really should look at that firewall box.

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