Is there a way to retreive info from tinc?

[Rob Townley]

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 02:41:29PM +0100, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto) wrote:
>
>> > Is there way to request status info from a running tinc daemon?
>> > Like retreive a list of subnets the tinc network is aware of?
>> > Or list active nodes etc..
>>
>> As far as I know you can send signals to a running tincd to gather
>> information about the running tincd process.
> [...]
>> maybe some core developer can extend my answer to this question.
>
> That is correct. Send the USR2 signal and tinc will dump a list of Nodes, Edges
> and Subnets to the syslog. The list of Subnets is similar to a routing table,
> sorted in the same way as the "route" command prints routes, so the first
> matching Subnet starting from the top will be used to decide which node a
> packet to send to. However, tinc lists all known Subnets, even those from nodes
> who might not be reachable. If a node is not reachable, tinc will skip its
> Subnets when trying to find a match.
>
> Tinc 1.1 has a command line utility to get a dump of all the Subnets more
> easily. There is also an experimental GUI. It's not released yet, but it works
> and you can get it from the git repository:
>
> git clone -b 1.1 http://tinc-vpn.org/git/tinc
>
> or if you don't want to use git and just want a tarball download:
>
> http://tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc;a=snapshot;h=refs/heads/1.1;sf=tgz
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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Guus, does the new utility work on windows clients?
If not, is there someway to get that same information on Windows
clients?  As you know, the signalling capability recommended above
does not work on windows.   Is that a limit of mingw?