On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, Sandy McArthur Jr wrote: > I use the Tinc 1.0 series since I don't want to support my > own packages. <snip> > I wrote most of http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/vpn.tinc and that is > what I still use. Since then . . .
Ok. I think I'll start with the 1.0 series packages that are already out there and get them working. and on Tue, Jan 27, 2015, Lance wrote: > The scripts used to create these binaries are here if you'd like to recreate > them. > https://github.com/lancethepants/tinc-mipsel-static/blob/master/tinc.sh > https://github.com/lancethepants/tinc-arm-musl-static Thanks. I'll start playing with those once I succeed (or otherwise) with the pre-packaged stuff. On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Sandy McArthur Jr <[email protected]> wrote: > Jonathan, > I really like OpenWrt. I've deployed Tinc on ~12 routers with OpenWrt > installed. I use the Tinc 1.0 series since I don't want to support my > own packages. > > OpenWrt has a nice unified configuration system. Tinc has a nice > configuration directory structure. What OpenWrt has done to merge > these two concepts over complicates things, and generally sucks. > > I wrote most of http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/vpn.tinc and that is > what I still use. Since then I wrote the script below to help automate > adding of new hosts in a network. > > A tip I've found when putting tinc on your gateway device is to bind > to several ports so you have options with mobile devices when they are > behind firewalls that block low ports. I tend to use 655 (tinc), 1194 > (openvpn), 65500 (tinc * 100 so it's a high port number) . Be careful > how you use this as some older versions of Tinc on OpenWrt crash on > startup when the .../NETWORK/hosts/NODENAME file lists multiple > "Address = .... : [port]" lines. > > Also, I like to have a backup method to find and remote to an OpenWrt > device (ddns and ssh) but if you allow ssh from the internet to your > gateway, it will get slammed on with logins by brute force all the > time. This is a good reason to make use of SSH-Keys and disallow > password authentication in the Dropbear config (option > RootPasswordAuth 'off'). > > Finally, some of my Tinc deployments are at locations that are not > staffed by technical people and would take me 3+ hours to travel to. I > now always configure these devices to daily reboot and they often have > a second Tinc network configured with a minimal, known good config > that doesn't change that I can use to remotely admin and fix the main > Tinc network config if I botch it up. > > > #!/bin/sh > > for network in /etc/tinc/*/ > do > netname=`basename $network` > echo Tinc Network Name: $netname > > for host in /etc/tinc/$netname/hosts/* > do > hostname=`basename $host` > echo Tinc Network $netname Host: $hostname > > if [ ! `uci get tinc.$hostname` ] > then > uci set tinc.$hostname=tinc-host > uci set tinc.$hostname.net=$netname > uci set tinc.$hostname.enabled=1 > uci commit > > fi > > done # for host > > done # for network > > On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Jonathan Clark > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Greetings. >> >> I'm new to tinc, but have so far managed to get a couple laptops and a >> hosted server all connected. They're working as expected, running >> Tinc 1.1-pre11, which I compiled from source. >> >> Next I want to move on to adding my home router into the mix. My >> routers run OpenWRT. I don't have experience compiling anything from >> source for OpenWRT, but OpenWRT has Tinc 1.0.25 prepackaged. >> >> With that in mind, which direction should I move next? I think my options >> are: >> >> (option a) >> Switch my existing/working Tinc setup to using RSA keys (instead of >> Ed25519) so they can talk to the 1.0.25 packages available on OpenWRT, >> and then go on to figure out how to get the already-packaged Tinc >> 1.0.25 working on my router. >> >> or >> (option b) >> Take a detour and learn how to cross-compile things for OpenWRT. Use >> this new knowledge to install Tinc 1.1pre11 onto my router. Feel >> accomplished. >> >> or something else? >> >> I'm exploring this mainly for the fun of figuring it out, so there's >> no deadline or even a business reason to succeed. Does that suggest I >> should tackle option a, and then go ahead and try option b, resulting >> in twice the fun and sense of accomplishment? >> >> And, overall, how difficult are each of these options? >> >> Thanks, by the way, for all your work. From what I've seen so far, >> this project is pretty impressive. >> >> Jonathan >> Kingston, New York, USA >> _______________________________________________ >> tinc mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc > > > > -- > Sandy McArthur, Jr. > > "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." > - Letters and Other Writings of James Madison (1865), Vol. IV, p. 491 _______________________________________________ tinc mailing list [email protected] http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc
