dynamic adding of nodes

[Lonnie Cumberland]

Based upon what you have said I can see that the other nodes B, C, 
etc... can then see the new node E.  The problem comes in for some 
reason node A is lost then now the other nodes cannot see node E any more.

The topology that I was thinking about would be a "star" topology where 
all nodes are fully connected to the other nodes in their hosts files.

In this case, I would expect that tinc has not facilities to dynamically 
handle the situation.  Maybe this could be useful for the next version.

Thanks,
Lonnie

Guus Sliepen wrote:

>On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:21:46AM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:
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>>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?
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>>Based upon what I can see, each node condifuration files need to be 
>>modified and each node re-started, right?
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>No. If you want to add node E to the existing VPN, you only have to copy
>node E's host config file to one of existing nodes, say for example A.
>Then you copy A's host config file to E, and add ConnectTo = A to E's
>tinc.conf. Then you (re)start E's tincd. You don't need to restart the
>tincd on A, and you don't have to do anything with the other nodes.
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