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<font face="Calibri">Hi,<br>
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Being a beginner with Tinc I browsed the mailing list archive in order
to see if other people were experiencing the same problems as I was.
And there is.<br>
But the answers given to them never actually seemed right to me (at
least regarding what it is said on tinc's website).<br>
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My problem is that in order to run a simple VPN between two machines I
had to manually add the "route add -net <ip>/24 $INTERFACE"
statement on hosts' tinc-up files.<br>
I came accross a lot of messages in the archive saying that tinc
doesn't handle routing and that it's my job to configure the routes
manually.<br>
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But according to the website :<br>
1) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/tinc_3.html#SEC37">http://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/tinc_3.html#SEC37</a><br>
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<p>"An example ‘<tt>tinc-up</tt>’ script: </p>
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<pre class="example">#!/bin/sh
ifconfig $INTERFACE 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.0.0
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<p>This script gives the interface an IP address and a netmask.
The kernel _will also automatically add a route to this interface_ , so
normally you _don't need
to add route commands_ to the ‘<tt>tinc-up</tt>’ script.
The kernel will also bring the interface up after this command.
The netmask is the mask of the <em>entire</em> VPN network, not just
your
own subnet." </p>
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2) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/tinc_3.html#SEC42">http://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/tinc_3.html#SEC42</a><br>
Same thing here: none of the example configuration has an "add route"
statement.<br>
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Is the site wrong? Am I missing something?<br>
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Best regards,<br>
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RB
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