dynamic adding of nodes

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 12:36:21PM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote:

> 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.

Yes, but if you have two or three ConnectTo's for each tincd then one
failing node will not cause problems. Indeed it would be better if tinc
automatically did "ConnectTo"s on demand, and it probably will in future
versions.

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