Understood, thanks for clarification as always Guus! Regards Yazeed Fataar <[email protected]>
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:48 PM, Guus Sliepen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 05:41:05PM +0300, Yazeed Fataar wrote: > > > Ok I have a simple lab setup with three nodes , one acting as the > "Central > > Node" and the other two as remote nodes which "*ConnectTo*" the central > > node in order to be able to communicate with each other. > > > > What I would like to know is , once the tinc remote nodes establish a > > connection to the "Central Node" , my understanding was that if the > remote > > nodes want to communicate with each other the data traffic will be > flowing > > through the central node. When I did a tcpdump on central node (both tun0 > > and eth0) interfaces I cannot see the ICMP traffic on central node ?!? > How > > does tinc pass the data traffic without the central node... hopefully not > > by MAGIC :) ... > > If the remote nodes want to communicate with each other, then if > possible they will do so directly without going through the central > node. However, if that is not possible for some reason (because of NAT > for example), then it will go via the central node. But in that case, > the tinc daemon on the central node will handle the forwarding > internally, you will not see those packets when you run tcpdump on the > central node's tun0 or eth0 interfaces (but if you set Forwarding = > kernel on the central node, then you will see the packets on tun0). > > -- > 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 > >
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