Maximum device name ?

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Sun Sep 5 22:38:40 CEST 2010


On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 10:16:35PM +0200, Perry Couprie wrote:

> How long can the the tinc netname be ?
> 
>  -n, --net=NETNAME
>  Connect to net NETNAME.

Tinc does not impose any limits. But it's best to keep it short. On Linux, the
netname is (unless you use the Interface option) also used as the name of the
VPN interface, which is limited to 16 characters IIRC.

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