PingTimeout

[Cédric Lemarchand]

Le 25/07/13 10:44, Etienne Dechamps a écrit :
> UDP probes are used both for discovering MTU and to check if a node is 
> reachable over UDP. If tinc doesn't receive any UDP packets from a 
> node for a while, it will fall back to indirect communication (i.e. it 
> will send UDP packets to an intermediate node which will forward it). 
> If it is unable to reach that intermediate node over UDP as well, it 
> will ultimately fall back to sending packets over its TCP 
> metaconnections.
>
> So if you shape UDP to the point where it becomes so congested that 
> your tinc nodes are unable to talk to each other using UDP, they will 
> adapt and send packets over TCP, which is probably not what you want.
>
Right, I need to keep control of the bandwidth used by tinc, so my only 
option is to play with PingTimeout.

Thanks Guus and Etienne for your precious enlightenment.

Cédric