Questions about multiple Tinc daemons

Denny Fox dennyf at microtime.sbwireless.net
Fri Dec 27 01:46:09 CET 2002


Thanks for your reply.

How about this part of the question?

I'm using tap0 for the first tinc vpn and tap1 for the second tinc
vpn.

Is it proper to use hw ether fe:fd:0:0:0:0 for both of them?
The docs say that you must use this MAC address for the routing mode.

Thanks,

Denny

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tinc-bounce at nl.linux.org [mailto:tinc-bounce at nl.linux.org]On
> Behalf Of Ivo Timmermans
> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2002 6:33 PM
> To: tinc at nl.linux.org; Denny Fox
> Subject: Re: Questions about multiple Tinc daemons
>
>
> Denny Fox wrote:
> > I have some questions about running multiple tinc
> deamons. The docs
> > say you can do it to support separate VPNs, but I don't see any
> > examples.
>
> True, because we assume it is clear what you should do :)
>
> > Also, if you run multiple tinc daemons, do you have to
> use different
> > ports?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Dec 26 16:00:25 server2 tinc[1879]: Can't bind to 0.0.0.0 port
> > 655/tcp: Address already in use
>
> That's because of the above limitation.
>
> > Another question is, how does it handle the pid files for multiple
> > tinc daemons? The static version writes to
> > /usr/local/var/run/tinc.pid. If I cat this file, it only
> has the PID
> > for the second instance:
> > 1879
>
> Hmm, there should be a /var/run/tinc.<network>.pid (or something.
> Definately not in /usr/local/var.)  Did you start tincd with -n
> <network>?  (Might be an error in the init script...)
>
>
> 	Ivo
>
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