tinc router mode on Windows 7

[Eric Yau]

Dear Mike,

 

Sorry for me to confuse you about that. My requirement is a network to be
bridged and all tinc hosts can connect to NetworkA hosts vice versa.

 

After tried your instruction and bridged the virtual tuntap adapter and
NetworkA LAN adapter. The PC B is still unable to ping and connect to PC A
"192.168.254.2". However, PC B can connect and ping to NetworkA tinc hosts
IP address "192.168.254.1" only.

 

Any idea?

 

Thanks,

Eric

 

 

From: Mike Bentzen [mailto:mike at bentzen.com.au] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 5:01 AM
To: tinc at tinc-vpn.org
Subject: Re: tinc router mode on Windows 7

 

Hi Eric,

Do you need router mode? You'll probably want switch mode for this, not
router mode. Your email isn't very descriptive of what you require - but do
you actually need the whole network to be bridged?

If you only have 3 hosts you want to connect, it's probably easier just to
install tinc on all three hosts.

If you do require a network to be bridged (this is using switch mode), do
this:

*	Change line to Mode = switch in tinc.conf on NetworkA and add the
same line in tinc.conf on PCA
*	Remove the Subnet lines from your hosts files
*	Add a bridge on NetworkA host running the tinc daemon between the
virtual tuntap adapter and your local network adapter
*	Make sure ipforwarding is enabled on NetworkA host running the tinc
daemon
*	Put in the route on PC B

Hopefully I haven't missed anything - this should work.

Mike


On 25/04/2012 1:08 AM, Eric Yau wrote: 

Dear All,

 

I am trying to enable router mode of tinc on Windows 7 platform. Although I
have enabled the router mode and IP routing in Windows 7 PC (Network A
Server). The PC B is still unable to connect the Network A and PC A. But the
Network A and PC A is able to communicate each other via tinc. Please help
and advise me any incorrect of that. 

 

Network A server

Real - LAN adapter IP: 192.168.1.1

tincVPN IP: 192.168.254.1

IP routing enabled = yes

 

Tinc.conf (Network A)

AddressFamily = ipv4

Name = NetworkA

Interface = tincVPN

Mode = Router

 

NetworkA

Subnet = 192.168.254.0/24

 

-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----

XXX

-----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----

 

Tinc.conf (PC A)

AddressFamily = ipv4

Name = PCA

Interface = tincVPN

ConnectTo = NetworkA

 

PC A

Subnet = 192.168.254.2/32

 

-----BEGIN RSA PUBLIC KEY-----

XXX

-----END RSA PUBLIC KEY-----

 

PC B

PC B doesn't have install the tinc. I just added the below route on PC B.
And PC B is able to communicate Network A LAN IP 192.168.1.1

C:\> route add 192.168.254.0 mask 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1

 

Thanks,

Eric


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