can't ping to an internal IP through tinc's virtual interfaces

Guus Sliepen guus at sliepen.eu.org
Wed Jul 30 00:35:16 CEST 2003


On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:45:13PM -0300, Roberto Meyer wrote:

> I tried to ping from pamvirtual, the external machine, to an internal IP
> of 'isivirtual' but it doesn't work. Neither 'traceroute'. 
> What's going on?
> 
> At 'isivirtual' routing (ip forwarding) is enabled and iptables is not 
> limiting traffic from virtual interfaces.

Probably wrong configuration of the virtual interface or wrong Subnets.
Send copies of tinc-up and the host config files so we can see!

> I'll begin reading about 'tcpdump' to find where packets don't flow, in
> the meantime, does tinc limits somehow this kind of traffic?

Tinc, in router mode, only routes packets whose destination address lies
within a Subnet of any of the nodes.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
    Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.eu.org>
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