You’re talking about Layer 2 bridging by Tinc? The use case here is layer 3 routing, but anyway, thanks for your feedback.
> On 1 May 2017, at 8:09 PM, LowEel <[email protected]> wrote: > > I cannot understand why you say the configuration for B will be tricky. > > If you select the switch mode, and some machine can initiate a > connection to some other machine, until > > there is a path, the whole net will behave as all the tap device were > connected to a single switch. > > Is not a vpn in the strict ipsec meaning, you should see it more like an > encrypted VLAN. > > > > On 05/01/2017 12:00 PM, Bright Zhao wrote: >> Hi, Tinc experts >> >> Diagram as below, A is trying to access host X behind C: >> >> A >> B >> C — “host X" >> >> B is the tinc server for A, but also B is the tinc client to connect to C. >> >> My question is, if I only use one VPN (/etc/tinc/myvpn), then the host >> configuration for B will be tricky. >> >> As the tinc server to A, B’s host config (/etc/tinc/myvpn/hosts/B) needs >> have the Subnet = X/32, which indicate the VPN serve for this host. >> But as the tinc client to C, B’s host config shouldn’t include Subnet = >> X/32, because X/32 is behind C. >> >> If not direct connection available from A to C, the only way I can figure it >> out is to setup two VPNs, /etc/tinc/vpn1 and /etc/tinc/vpn2: >> >> A >> vpn1 >> B >> vpn2 >> C — “host X” >> >> If so, the /etc/tinc/vpn1/hosts/B can have Subnet =X/32; but the >> /etc/tinc/vpn2/hosts/B can exclude Subnet =X/32 since it’s the client side >> for C. >> >> Let me know if there’s any other simple way to achieve this. >> _______________________________________________ >> tinc mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc > > > _______________________________________________ > tinc mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc _______________________________________________ tinc mailing list [email protected] https://www.tinc-vpn.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tinc
