Metadata socket and net2str() error

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Oops, silly me.
My name is Arno van der Kolk, by the way. ;)


I have been reading some more through the mail archive and have enabled
debug level 5. It seems both hosts are ping-ponging quite nicely.

However, I have also found out the following:

Client:~$ ping 10.0.0.1
PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1): 56 data bytes

--- 10.0.0.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss


Generates the following in the log:

Jul  7 23:21:53 Client tinc.iwan[273]: Read packet of 249 bytes from Linux
ethertap device
Jul  7 23:21:53 Client tinc.iwan[273]: Sending packet of 249 bytes to Client
(MYSELF)
Jul  7 23:21:53 Client tinc.iwan[273]: Packet is looping back to us!

This goes for both hosts.

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More information

The routing table for the Server looks like this:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
217.x.x.0       0.0.0.0         255.255.254.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
10.0.0.0        10.0.0.3        255.255.0.0     UG    0      0        0 tap0
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 tap0
0.0.0.0         217.120.198.1   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

The routing table for the Client looks like this:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
10.0.0.0        10.0.0.1        255.255.0.0     UG    0      0        0 tap0
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 tap0
10.0.0.0        0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 tap0
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

The duplicate entries for the tap0 device are because of some experimenting,
normally there's only one (!! without a gateway !!).

Here's also the output of ifconfig...

ifconfig on the Server:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:C5:0D:F1:A9
          inet addr:217.x.x.22  Bcast:217.x.x.255  Mask:255.255.254.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15412 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4380 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:103 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:2506803 (2.3 MiB)  TX bytes:3599805 (3.4 MiB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0xfc80

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:18:39:2B:2F
          inet addr:192.168.0.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:8683 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:9515 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:6 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:4069422 (3.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2289202 (2.1 MiB)
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0xff40

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:120 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:12880 (12.5 KiB)  TX bytes:12880 (12.5 KiB)

tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FD:00:00:00:00
          inet addr:10.0.0.1  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:500 (500.0 b)
          Interrupt:5

ifconfig on the Client:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:AA:00:35:7F:51
          inet addr:192.168.0.9  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2253 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4892 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:3 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:210815 (205.8 KiB)  TX bytes:269997 (263.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x300

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:336 (336.0 b)  TX bytes:336 (336.0 b)

tap0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FE:FD:00:00:00:00
          inet addr:10.0.0.3  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:106 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:14278 (13.9 KiB)
          Interrupt:5



Again, any help would be appreciated because I still don't know what the
problem is; everything looks alright to me. Thanks.

Arno
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