Re: Can't ping non-tinc host in subnet across VPN

2010-09-15 Thread Peter Meier
Exactly, that does the trick! I think it should become part of the documentation, shouldn't it? Add the line echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to every host running tinc and serving part of the vpn. Thanks all for your kind help. And, of course, thanks to Guus and Ivo for this gem.

Re: Can't ping non-tinc host in subnet across VPN

2010-09-15 Thread Peter Meier
Sorry, got distracted. I wanted to say Add the line echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to tinc-up and echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to tinc-down on every host running tinc and serving part of the vpn. Ulli 2010/9/14 albi a...@albi.life.de: To be honest, I don't know. I don't

Re: Can't ping non-tinc host in subnet across VPN

2010-09-15 Thread Sven-Haegar Koch
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Peter Meier wrote: I wanted to say Add the line echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to tinc-up and echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward to tinc-down on every host running tinc and serving part of the vpn. Note: Don't do the echo 0 on tinc-hosts which are also

Re: Can't ping non-tinc host in subnet across VPN

2010-09-15 Thread Peter Meier
Correct. I was looking from my point of view. Here all computers of a subnet have only access to the VPN or are strictly local. Cheers Ulli 2010/9/15 Sven-Haegar Koch hae...@sdinet.de: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010, Peter Meier wrote: I wanted to say Add the line  echo 1

Re: Can't ping non-tinc host in subnet across VPN

2010-09-14 Thread Peter Meier
2. idea: Did you avtivate routing/forwarding on thor? To be honest, I don't know. I don't have the routing tables handy right now, but what do you mean exactly? What do I have to check? Do you have an example for it? 2010/9/14 albi a...@albi.life.de: On Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:26:10 +0200, Peter

Re: Can't ping non-tinc host in subnet across VPN

2010-09-14 Thread albi
To be honest, I don't know. I don't have the routing tables handy right now, but what do you mean exactly? What do I have to check? Do you have an example for it? You must activate forwaring on a computer to act as a router between the two interfaces. Linux: