On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:23:20AM -0300, Christian Lyra wrote:

> I´m trying to use tinc to solve this scenario:
> 
> Host A has public/know ip address
> Hosts B and C are behind nat
> 
> I´m using switch mode, and hosts B and C has IndirectMode enabled.
> Host A is in listen only mode (no ConnectTo set), hosts B and C
> connects to A.  Everything works almost as expected... B and C
> connects to A, and they can ping each other, but ONLY after each other
> learns the other MAC thru A. What I mean is: if I start A, B, C, and
> try to ping C from B, ping will fail, but if I send a ping to A from
> C, then B will be able to ping C as it will learn the MAC of C thru A.
> If there´s no traffic between the hosts for a while, then the arp
> entries will expire from arp tables and the problem will happen again.

This is probably caused by NAT or other stateful firewall rules. Try adding
TCPOnly = yes to your host config files, that should solve the problem.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>

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