redundant network connection and tinc

[Folkert van Heusden]

>> at the moment i'm managing a distributed network country wide , which i
>> want to use tinc on all the machines so we can have direct access to all
>> the servers (including those behind firewall) .
>> the problem arises with the fact that , my firewalls are connect to two
>> separate networks , one is actually a country wide network , and the other
>> is internet access ,
>> is there a way , that tinc would use a path as it's preferred path to
>> connect to the host , and the other as backup for failover , so if one path
>> goes down , the other would be available .
>
> You can have multiple Address statements in host config files. Tinc will try to
> connect to the first Address. If it fails, it will try the next. So if a host
> can be reached by two IP addresses, one for each path, add Address statements
> for each address to its host config file. However, although tinc will do
> fail-over, it will not automatically fail-back when the preferred path is up
> again.

That would be an interesting enhancement.
Also loadbalancing over all those connections would be very nice. With
an weight preferably.
That way you can always connect via ethernet if it is available and
else via gprs/umts.