question from openvpn user, how to "redirect-gateway" in tincd

[Benjamin Henrion]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 12:01 AM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 06:11:48PM +0100, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:
>
>> To configure clients in OpenVPN there was this directive called:
>> --redirect-gateway
> [...]
>> In know in tinc I can implement this easily using the tinc-up script
>> (when I have Linux/Mac clients), but I have two problems.
>>
>> The current gateway value is in some env variable ? Or I have to write
>> my own script to grep that out or there is something already available
>> ?
>
> You grep it out of the current routing table. I have added an example to the
> wiki:
>
> http://tinc-vpn.org/examples/redirect-gateway/
>
> There are other ways to do it, but this is fairly simple and robust, I think.
>
>> What if I have windows client ? I have to write a tinc-up script in
>> Windows Style script ? I have no idea how to use windows :(
>
> I have no idea either. You can use the netsh command to get and manipulate the
> routing table. On Windows, tinc expects tinc-up.bat, hosts/server-up.bat, et
> cetera. I have no idea if Style scripts would work. If anyone using Windows has
> an idea, please tell us.
>
> Also, if there are BSD or MacOS/X users: many examples on the wiki contain
> Linux specific scripts, it would help if these were ported to other platforms
> as well.

It looks fairly complicated compared to the OpenVPN way.

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