Thank you very much Guus and Sven, that sounds indeed very exciting, can't wait to try it out.
Best regards, Ray ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Guus Sliepen" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 10:35:48 PM > Subject: Re: Help needed with Tinc Setup on remote hosts and lots of ISPs / > Failover Problems between ISPs > On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:26:18PM +0200, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote: > > > #!/bin/sh > > > ifconfig $INTERFACE 10.96.x.y > > > > Won't a netmask of 255.255.255.255 be better than not specifying any? > > Otherwise it falls back to old classful adressing and would assume > > 10.0.0.0/8 - which is clearly always wrong. [...] Or are tun devices > > different in this regard? > Hm, it seems that ifconfig indeed treats tun and tap differently, if you > don't specify a netmask it applies a /32 for tun interfaces and a /8 for > tap. > Iproute is better I guess: > #!/bin/sh > ip addr add 10.96.x.y dev $INTERFACE > ip link set dev $INTERFACE up > > > Then, assuming you run tinc in router Mode (the default), you should > > > create a script named "subnet-up" in the same directory as tinc-up, and > > > put this in it: > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > ip addr add $SUBNET dev $INTERFACE > > > > > > And a "subnet-down" script: > > > > > > #!/bin/sh > > > ip addr del $SUBNET dev $INTERFACE > > > > Don't you mean "ip route add/del" here? > Yes, thanks for correcting me. > -- > Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, > Guus Sliepen <[email protected]> > _______________________________________________ > tinc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc -- _______________________________________________ tinc mailing list [email protected] http://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc
