dynamic adding of nodes

Lonnie Cumberland lonnie at neenet.com
Sun Nov 14 17:21:46 CET 2004


Thanks Guus for answering all of these many emails.

I now had a question as to if it is possible for something like this.

Suppose that you have a Tinc VPN network made up of 4 nodes (A, B, C, D) 
and you want to dynamically add new nodes (E, F). How can this be done 
without having to re-start all of the nodes A-D?

Based upon what I can see, each node condifuration files need to be 
modified and each node re-started, right?

Would it be better if tincd would watch the network directory on that 
node for changes and update communications based upon the node files 
placed in there at any time.  This could also be extended to a 
"ConnectTo" directory for each node that could dynamically connect to 
other nodess if there were a file with parameters for each connect to in 
that directory.

Was trying to get away from having to restart node daemons.

I am especially interested in how my roadwarriors will be allowed to 
have people connect to them easily without using external services like 
DynDNS.

Just an idea though.

Thanks,
Lonnie




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