Multiple tunnels between same nodes

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:58:04PM +0300, Vladislav wrote:

> AR> Why you want multiple tunnels between same computers?
> AR> You (clients) will have 3 tunnels to 3 servers as maximum (1 is minimum).
> AR> Routing will be handled by tinc. Servers must connect to each other too.
> 
> Yes, i did mean multiple tunnels between same computers, because one of them
> has two ISPs  so two network adapters and two different IPs, both online.
> It's Win 2003 Server if that matters. Is that possible for tinc to create 2
> tunnels to this PC? 
> 
> Sometimes one of ISP gets disconnected and it has dynamic IP,keeping two
> tunnels would help server stay online on a second DSL 'backup' interface.

Tinc cannot maintain two tunnels to the same node at the same time. However,
you can add multiple Address lines in a host config file. If tinc cannot
connect to another node via the first Address, it will try the second, and so
on. So you cannot do load balancing, but you can do failover.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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