tinc connection only usable after ping from other side

[Guus Sliepen]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 02:33:18PM +0100, uws wrote:

> > It's caused by a masquerading firewall on your server's side.
> > Fix your masquerading firewall (look at the examples on tinc's website)
> > or use TCPOnly = yes (see the documentation).
> 
> I'm experiencing exactly the same problem as Moritz Maisel does. I run a
> masquerading firewall on my server host. Even when using TCPOnly = yes
> (which is what I use for all my connections) the problem persists. Any clue?

Stateful firewall rules?

The only other thing I can imagine is if you use the ethertap device
instead of the tun/tap device and have set a different MAC address than
fe:fd:0:0:0:0 and haven't disabled ARP.

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