Let me be the first to encourage you. filtering would be an outstanding feature.
On 3/16/10, Markus Dangl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a small tinc network (switched) set up and it usually works > fine. But sometimes i get echos from my own broadcasts and sometimes > this even leads to a broadcast storm (two nodes forwarding the > broadcasts in circle, thus flooding the whole network with copies of the > same packet). > > I'm currently unsure on how to debug this using tinc. So my questions are: > - How does tinc handle broadcasts when in switching mode? Does tinc > understand STP? (I usually enable STP on all my linux bridges). > - Not all of the clients update their tinc clients regularly, so i > might have several tinc versions from 1.0.9 to 1.0.12 in my net. Could > it be that incompatibilities between these versions are responsible for > this? > > B.t.w.: > > Sadly not all of the installations are maintained by people that > actually know a lot about network stuff. Also, a lot of the nodes run on > Windows :/ so i don't have a portable way to use packet filtering on all > nodes. > > A nice-to-have feature for tinc would be to have some filtering options, > maybe even a real packet filter (like those *-tables tools on linux). I > see that that's not really tincs job, but there currently is no portable > way of packet filtering, but tinc could do it :) > If there are more people that could make good use of such a feature i > might just start experimenting a little with the tinc sources. > > With kind regards, > Markus Dangl > _______________________________________________ > tinc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc > -- Sent from my mobile device _______________________________________________ tinc mailing list [email protected] http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc
