Hi Vil,
Thanks for your answers. By the way, I noticed my battery drains much
faster when tinc is running? Not very surprising I guess, the traffic
from the other nodes will probably keep the 3G connection active a lot
more than usual.
Ivo
Op 26-9-2012 17:59, Vil Brekin schreef:
2012/9/25 Ivo Smits <[email protected]>:
Just a few comments:
- After stopping tinc, stop button text does not always change back to start
Seems to be a GUI refresh bug. Did you stop tincd via the stop button,
or killed it manually?
If I stop tinc via the Stop button, the button text does not change. If
I kill tincd manually (killall tincd), the button text changes to Start!
- Buttons look awfully simple and unaligned ;-)
As you can see, I'm far from being an experienced GUI developer, and
must tell this is not the most interesting part to me, as long as the
buttons work. But I should imrpove this anyway.
I totally understand - don't worry about it.
- debug button does not seem to make a difference?
It sends signal to the tinc daemon to switch it to debug mode (level
5), so only works when the daemon is started. I should as well disable
it when it's stopped to avoid confusion.
Debug button does not change anything in the tincd output. Manually
sending SIGINT to tincd does activate level 5 debug mode, so I think the
signal is not sent. Tinc is running as root.
- tinc is looking for /dev/net/tun while my phone only has /dev/tun (might
be device specific? symlink or configuration directive fixes this)
I personnaly use the "Device=/dev/tun" from the configuration file to
specify which file to use.
Thanks, that works too. I don't know if it makes sense to change the
default for android builds?
- config file selection shows empty list for /data because /data is chmod
771 by default, perhaps you can work around this by reading the directory as
root?
Would be quite a pain, as I would have to parse command line results
to browse directories (as you can only start sub-processes with root
right, not get them on the main process).
Anyway I advise using a folder in /sdcard, so you can update it easily
from your computer.
I see. I tried to use /sdcard first, but I couldn't set the permissions
necessary to execute the tinc-up script (to configure the interface), so
that didn't work for me. I changed the permissions on /data to be world
readable.
- I forgot that I had to use the tinc-up script for IP address
configuration, my bad. You could perhaps create a nice GUI which creates the
tinc-up script, tinc.conf and local node configuration/keys.
I've been thinking about it, but it would be quite a lot of work as
well, and I'm not sure this is really useful to the
tinc users: indeed, for me the easiest solution is still to build the
configuration on the target computer, and copy it on the phone.
BTW, it seems it's already scheduled to simplify tinc's configuration
process in future releases, so it might be a duplicate task...
Anyway, I can now watch a live TV stream over the VPN via 3G on my phone.
Great!
Ivo
Op 24-9-2012 17:03, Vil Brekin schreef:
Hi Adam,
As for tinc on linux, you'll need a TUN/TAP device on android as well
(my app is just a basic GUI over the standard tinc daemon). I'm not
sure it's available on every ROM. I use CM9/10 on a SGS2, and the
driver is included in the kernel.
Same, you can disable root usage in the application (in the settings),
but it's probably needed to access the TUN/TAP device anyway...
The GUI is minimalistic, and is mainly used to deploy the tincd binary
and launch/monitor it easily.
For the configuration, the easiest solution is to build it from a PC
and copy it to your phone's SD card.
This might not be easy enough for the average android user, however I
guess tinc's user are more in the geek category :)
Anyway, any feedback is welcome to help me improving it.
Rgds,
V
2012/9/24 Adam Del Vecchio <[email protected]>:
Hello,
I've just installed the app but have yet to use it. It seems functional,
however. I will configure and report here later tonight.
Will I need to specify a specific Device/Interface in order for it to
work correctly on the Nexus 7?
Thanks,
Adam
Vil Brekin <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
As I was missing an Android port of tinc (thanks for this great
tool!), I built one by myself.
It's simply a cross-compiled version of tinc daemon (with very few
changes), and a (basic) GUI application for Android to deploy and
manage it.
Both my changes to original tinc and the GUI are available on GitHub:
- https://github.com/Vilbrekin/tinc
- https://github.com/Vilbrekin/tinc_gui
The tinc GUI is available on Google Play as well:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.poirsouille.tinc_gui&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDEsIm9yZy5wb2lyc291aWxsZS50aW5jX2d1aSJd
My changes to original tinc being minimal (added ifdef for 2 missing
functions on Android NDK, and a new configuration file option), I was
thinking of merging them with upstream. Are you accepting pull
requests?
Rgds,
V
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