ping between nated hosts

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 12:55:29PM -0200, Christian Lyra wrote:

> >  This is probably caused by NAT or other stateful firewall rules. Try
> > adding TCPOnly = yes to your host config files, that should solve the
> > problem.
> 
> Indeed... this solves the problem but Statefull firewall rules should be 
> satisfied with a short "PingInterval", shouldnt it? I would like to not 
> use tcp if possible.

You are right that using TCPOnly is less than optimal. However, up to and
including 1.0.9, tinc's own pings are always sent via TCP. In 1.0.10 there may
be code to check for and maintain UDP connectivity more actively.

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