X-Git-Url: https://www.tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=46deda8e50d2c71fa9b45961a1fee801cb4f3672;hp=8f2e47bf40e25e0db3c79185494b57845965cd66;hb=61e71ab74ad9b5edb044b84ccf1111a33eb468cb;hpb=1243156a5e03a666b36bc4400f1402243a85c9a7 diff --git a/README b/README index 8f2e47bf..46deda8e 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,7 +1,8 @@ -This is the README file for tinc version 0.3. +This is the README file for tinc version 1.0. Installation instructions may be found in the INSTALL file. -tinc is Copyright (C) 1998,99 Ivo Timmermans and +tinc is Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000 Ivo Timmermans +, Guus Sliepen and others. For a complete list of authors see the AUTHORS file. This product includes software developed by Eric Young (eay@mincom.oz.au) @@ -18,7 +19,11 @@ do this, configure will (hopefully) mention it to you. This version of tinc supports multiple virtual networks at once. To use this feature, you may supply a netname via the -n or --net options. The standard locations for the config files will then be -/etc/tinc//. +/etc/tinc//. Because of this feature, tinc will send packets +directly to their destinations, instead of to the uplink. If this +behaviour is undesirable (for instance because of firewalls or +other restrictions), please use an older version of tinc (I would +recommend tinc-0.2.19). In this version, MAC addresses are stripped off before encoding and sending a packet. When the packet reaches its destination, the MAC