No connection between nodes on same LAN

[Guus Sliepen]

On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 03:47:57PM +0200, Daniel Schall wrote:

> I am currently deploying tinc as an alternative to OpenVPN.
> 
> My setup includes a lot of nodes and some of them are sitting together
> behind the same router on the same network segment.
> 
> (E.g. connected to the same switch.)
> 
> I noticed, that those nodes do never talk directly to each other via their
> private ip-addresses, but instead use the NATed address they got from the
> router.
> 
> Furthermore, some talk only over a third node, that sits outside the LAN.
[...]

If you only have the nodes behind the NAT ConnectTo the node with a public IP
address, they will never be able to discover that they are on the same LAN.
However, if you add a "ConnectTo = Node2" to Node1's tinc.conf, and add
"Address = 192.168.0.102" to Node1's hosts/Node2 file, then it will make a
direct connection.

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