lose connection with traffic from connector to connectee

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:10PM -0600, ebina1 wrote:

> tincd on B is running.  tincd on A starts and connects to B.  Now, if
> the first network data is from B to A such as "ping 192.168.0.3" from
> B then the connection works well in both directions for quite a while.
> If the connection is idle for a long time, and then the first data is
> from A to B the data transfer stops (see below).
> 
> If the first network data is from A to B such as "ping 192.168.1.253
> from A then no data gets through and the connection doesn't work
> right.  From the syslog on A it appears data is being sent to B, and
> nothing is returning.  We do still get the periodic PING/PONG from A
> to B but no other data gets through.  From the syslog on B we see:
[...]
> Feb 19 15:13:22 linux tinc.vpn[2414]: Received UDP packet on port 655 
> from unknown source cdd4959:517

The UDP packets come from the right IP address but from another port
(517) instead of from port 655. Is there a masquerading gateway between
A and B perhaps? If so, you might need to add "TCPOnly = yes" to hosts/A
on B.

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