very high traffic without any load

[Absolute Truth]

Sound like your tincs are talking to each other over and over. Can we get
some info from tinc.conf and tinc host files.. need to see some ip address
configs for tinc.

On Wed, May 1, 2019, 10:46 AM Christopher Klinge <Christ.Klinge at web.de>
wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am new to using tinc and currently trying to set up a full IPv6 mesh
> between 4 servers of mine. Setting it up went smoothly and all of the tinc
> clients do connect properly. Routing through the network works fine as
> well. There is however a large amount of management traffic which I assume
> should not be the case.
>
> Here is a quick snapshot using "tinc -n netname top" showing cumulative
> values:
>
>
> Tinc sites             Nodes:    4  Sort: name        Cumulative
> Node                IN pkts   IN bytes   OUT pkts  OUT bytes
> node01             98749248 67445198848   98746920 67443404800
> node02             37877112 25869768704   37878860 25870893056
> node03             34607168 23636463616   34608260 23637114880
> node04             26262640 17937174528   26262956 17937287168
>
>
> That's 67GB for node01 in approximately 1.5 hours. Needless to say, this
> kind of traffic is entirely prohibiting me from using tinc. I have read a
> few messages in this mailing list, but the only thing I could find were
> traffic spikes, likely caused by other systems using the same devices as
> tinc or by the tinc daemon running for too long. The later does not apply,
> as the entire network was up for an hour and a half only. Additionally I do
> not think the first one applies, as all of my machines use entirely fresh
> tun/tap devices when running the network. The problem appeared even after a
> fresh restart with not other noteworthy processes running besides tinc.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Kind regards
> Christopher
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