Virtual LAN over Tinc?

[Donald Pearson]

On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 11:15:33AM -0500, Donald Pearson wrote:
>
> > As soon as I bridge the Tinc interface with the LAN interface, I get the
> > error Cannot route packet from Donald (MYSELF): unknown type 26
>
> Ah, that means tinc is in router mode. There is a bug in tinc (which will
> be
> fixed in the next release) where it doesn't read the last line of
> configuration
> files if it does not end with a carriage return or line feed character. Try
> adding an empty line at the end of your tinc.conf files, that should fix
> your
> problem.
>


Wow, what a difference.  This is extremely promising.  Everything is not as
I need to be quite yet, but I now it's a matter of configuration on the host
computers themselves rather than Tinc.
I will reply again with everything I discover once I have it all ironed out.

Thanks a million Guus.



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