This is the info manual for @value{PACKAGE} version @value{VERSION}, a Virtual Private Network daemon.
-Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2012 Ivo Timmermans,
+Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2013 Ivo Timmermans,
Guus Sliepen <guus@@tinc-vpn.org> and
Wessel Dankers <wsl@@tinc-vpn.org>.
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This is the info manual for @value{PACKAGE} version @value{VERSION}, a Virtual Private Network daemon.
-Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2012 Ivo Timmermans,
+Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2013 Ivo Timmermans,
Guus Sliepen <guus@@tinc-vpn.org> and
Wessel Dankers <wsl@@tinc-vpn.org>.
@cindex release
For an up to date list of supported platforms, please check the list on
our website:
-@uref{http://www.tinc-vpn.org/platforms}.
+@uref{http://www.tinc-vpn.org/platforms/}.
@c
@c
by the OpenSSL library.
If this library is not installed, you wil get an error when configuring
-tinc for build. Support for running tinc without having OpenSSL
+tinc for build. Support for running tinc with other cryptographic libraries
installed @emph{may} be added in the future.
You can use your operating system's package manager to install this if
For the optional compression of UDP packets, tinc uses the functions provided
by the zlib library.
-If this library is not installed, you wil get an error when configuring
-tinc for build. Support for running tinc without having zlib
-installed @emph{may} be added in the future.
+If this library is not installed, you wil get an error when running the
+configure script. You can either install the zlib library, or disable support
+for zlib compression by using the "--disable-zlib" option when running the
+configure script. Note that if you disable support for zlib, the resulting
+binary will not work correctly on VPNs where zlib compression is used.
You can use your operating system's package manager to install this if
available. Make sure you install the development AND runtime versions
@subsection lzo
@cindex lzo
-Another form of compression is offered using the lzo library.
+Another form of compression is offered using the LZO library.
-If this library is not installed, you wil get an error when configuring
-tinc for build. Support for running tinc without having lzo
-installed @emph{may} be added in the future.
+If this library is not installed, you wil get an error when running the
+configure script. You can either install the LZO library, or disable support
+for LZO compression by using the "--disable-lzo" option when running the
+configure script. Note that if you disable support for LZO, the resulting
+binary will not work correctly on VPNs where LZO compression is used.
You can use your operating system's package manager to install this if
available. Make sure you install the development AND runtime versions
If you cannot use one of the precompiled packages, or you want to compile tinc
for yourself, you can use the source. The source is distributed under
the GNU General Public License (GPL). Download the source from the
-@uref{http://www.tinc-vpn.org/download, download page}, which has
+@uref{http://www.tinc-vpn.org/download/, download page}, which has
the checksums of these files listed; you may wish to check these with
md5sum before continuing.
In order to build tinc on Darwin, you need to install the MacOS/X Developer Tools
from @uref{http://developer.apple.com/tools/macosxtools.html} and
-a recent version of Fink from @uref{http://fink.sourceforge.net/}.
+a recent version of Fink from @uref{http://www.finkproject.org/}.
After installation use fink to download and install the following packages:
autoconf25, automake, dlcompat, m4, openssl, zlib and lzo.
Make sure you have an adequate understanding of networks in general.
@cindex Network Administrators Guide
A good resource on networking is the
-@uref{http://www.linuxdoc.org/LDP/nag2/, Linux Network Administrators Guide}.
+@uref{http://www.tldp.org/LDP/nag2/, Linux Network Administrators Guide}.
If you have everything clearly pictured in your mind,
proceed in the following order:
generated by @samp{tincd --generate-keys}. It must be a full path, not a
relative directory.
-Note that there must be exactly one of PrivateKey
-or PrivateKeyFile
-specified in the configuration file.
-
@cindex ProcessPriority
@item ProcessPriority = <low|normal|high>
When this option is used the priority of the tincd process will be adjusted.
Increasing the priority may help to reduce latency and packet loss on the VPN.
@cindex Proxy
-@item Proxy = socks4 | socks4 | http | exec @var{...} [experimental]
+@item Proxy = socks4 | socks5 | http | exec @var{...} [experimental]
Use a proxy when making outgoing connections.
The following proxy types are currently supported:
Optionally, a @var{username} can be supplied which will be passed on to the proxy server.
@cindex socks5
-@item socks4 <@var{address}> <@var{port}> [<@var{username}> <@var{password}>]
+@item socks5 <@var{address}> <@var{port}> [<@var{username}> <@var{password}>]
Connect to the proxy using the SOCKS version 5 protocol.
If a @var{username} and @var{password} are given, basic username/password authentication will be used,
otherwise no authentication will be used.
@cindex StrictSubnets
-@item StrictSubnets <yes|no> (no) [experimental]
+@item StrictSubnets = <yes|no> (no) [experimental]
When this option is enabled tinc will only use Subnet statements which are
present in the host config files in the local
@file{@value{sysconfdir}/tinc/@var{netname}/hosts/} directory.
Prefixlength is the number of bits set to 1 in the netmask part; for
example: netmask 255.255.255.0 would become /24, 255.255.252.0 becomes
/22. This conforms to standard CIDR notation as described in
-@uref{ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1519.txt, RFC1519}
+@uref{http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1519.txt, RFC1519}
@cindex Subnet weight
A Subnet can be given a weight to indicate its priority over identical Subnets
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