very high traffic without any load

[Absolute Truth]

I suspect your /64.. try giving a single address to two seperate machine so
one single addresses for each. /32 . Then check your traffic. Tinc is a
mesh network. If you give it millions of addresses. Then its probably
checking each one.

On Thu, May 2, 2019, 2:06 PM Christopher Klinge <Christ.Klinge at web.de>
wrote:

> Good evening,
>
> all of my servers where set up fresh with no other applications running
> besides tinc and my ssh sessions. I just double checked and those are the
> two only processes on my machines that have active sockets. Additionally,
> the SSH sessions do not go through the VPN, but are set up directly to the
> machines. Does tinc provide a way for differentiating between between meta
> and payload traffic?
>
> Kind regards and thanks for your time,
> Christopher
>
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 01. Mai 2019 um 23:29 Uhr
> *Von:* "Lars Kruse" <lists at sumpfralle.de>
> *An:* tinc at tinc-vpn.org
> *Betreff:* Re: very high traffic without any load
> Hello Christopher,
>
>
> Am Wed, 1 May 2019 12:37:33 +0200
> schrieb "Christopher Klinge" <Christ.Klinge at web.de>:
>
> > There is however a large amount of management traffic which I assume
> should
> > not be the case.
>
> indeed - I never noticed an unreasonable amount of tinc management traffic
> with any of my setups.
>
> How exactly did you verify, that tinc meta traffic is really the culprit?
> Did you compare the traffic over your uplink interface with the traffic
> over the tinc interface?
> Maybe there is just a huge amount of payload traffic exchanged between the
> nodes over the tinc VPN?
> Since you are using "switch" mode, this could even be broadcast traffic.
>
> Cheers,
> Lars
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