Define which host to use when direct link not possible?

[Guus Sliepen]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 10:47:01AM +0200, Armin wrote:

> >You can set IndirectData = yes in hosts/office-2 on hosts/office-1, and
> >vice versa, to prevent it from trying a direct connection.
> >
> >Note that you also should not have ConnectTo = office-2 in office-1's
> >tinc.conf, and vice versa, otherwise the above will not have any effect.
> 
> Understood. But this will keep tinc from doing direct only, but it may
> use *any* other host to transfer the data, right?

Correct.

> I would like to set a specific host (with best connection) to be the
> 'man-in-the-middle'.

Then have the man-in-the-middle set "Weight = 0" in its host config
file. That will cause it to get a higher priority when deciding how to
route packets if there are multiple paths with the same number of hops.

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