Tinc Network Spikes

[Mark Lopez]

Thanks for the help. 

> It should if you set ExperimentalProtocol = no in tinc.conf, but if you
> really want a stable VPN I suggest you keep running 1.0.x for now.

I've upgraded to 1.1pre9. For some reason 1.1pre10 was crashing on Ubuntu
12.04 LTS systems (encryption issues?). The binary for Windows also had
encryption issues on pre10. Pre9 seems stable, although every now and then I
experience a cascading crash of all the daemons on the network. I had to
create a watchdog script to restart tinc. The nodes couldn't route incoming
packets unless I pinged all the nodes first - so the watchdog script also
pings each node on the network after a crash. 

ExperimentalProtocol was disabled. 

> It would be helpful if you could provide us with a dump of the nodes and
> edges of the VPN, both when it is working properly and when it is
> looping. You can tell tinc to dump this information to the syslog by
> running:

I've dumped the nodes to a pastebin using the following commands:

> tinc -n <netname> dump nodes
> tinc -n <netname> dump edges

http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XMVyQgp9

I've included both the dump at normal operations, and during the spike. It
took some time to catch to spikes in the act - with the upgrade to 1.1 I've
only seen two spikes in the past month (they lasted minutes) - improvement?

Regards, 
Mark Lopez

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