tinc 1.0pre4 released

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 10:41:30AM +0200, Eduard Bloch wrote:

> Some notes:
> 
> - Ethertap is still available in 2.4.x., the option becomes visible (in
>   "Network devices") if you enable "netlink" in "Networking options".

Correct, but it did not function correctly in 2.4 last time I checked.

> - Tun/Tap is not really compatible with Ethertap, is it? The last time I
>   tried a was not able to get connection.

It is compatible, you can connect tinc daemons with mixed ethertap and tun/tap
drivers. I run such a setup myself.

> - Tun/Tap creates a network interface when a programm requests it from
>   the driver, right? So we have no tap interface at boottime, and the
>   iface must be configured after tinc is started, right? You could add
>   an option like "post-exec", so "ifup tap0" is executed on success.
>   Alternatively, distribution maintainers could provide this in their
>   init scripts, but I would prefer the first option.

Read the documentation, and look for the "tinc-up" script :).

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
  Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.warande.net>
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