Compression on Windows

Peter Vazny pvazny at gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 22:15:20 CEST 2009


It turns out the errors would only come up when testing with iperf, so they
are completely unrelated. I have then put the compression string in all host
files and it started working. I had it previously only in the destination
host files on each of the machines.

Thank you

Peter

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 01:36:35PM -0500, Peter Vazny wrote:
>
> > I have installed tinc on two windows XP machines and successfully set up
> a
> > tunnel. Now I am trying to add compression but I cannot find much in
> > documentation other then "compression" statement in host file. I have set
> > that to 9, but I do not see any compression on the connection and i see
> > bunch off errors saying "Error sending packet to <node> (<ip address>
> port
> > <port>): No such file or directory".
>
> Are you sure these errors appear only when using the Compression option?
> Can
> you also try using Compression = 11, and see if that makes any difference?
>
> > I have used the latest package for windows. Do I need to add the zlib
> > library? If so - how? I have downloaded the zlib1.dll and placed it to
> tinc
> > install folder to no avail.
>
> The Windows executable contains its own copy of zlib and LZO, you don't
> need to
> install any DLLs.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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