Can I use it to FIX my internet connection?

[Donald Pearson]

For Windows you can do this through the command prompt (run as
administrator in Vista & Win7).

First get the current default gateway.  Enter the command "route print"
Look for the line where Network Destination and Netmask are 0.0.0.0.
The gateway listed on that same line is the current default gateway.

The first change is to set a static route to the internet IP of the
remote Tinc participant, using your "normal" default gateway as your
next hop using the "route ADD" command.   This will enable us to
change our default gateway, without breaking the necessary route to
keep the VPN alive.
Example: route ADD <IP address of remote Tinc participant> MASK
255.255.255.255 <IP of your normal default gateway>
Example: route ADD 173.66.67.97 MASK 255.255.255.255 192.168.0.1

Now you change your default gateway to the VPN IP address of the
remote Tinc participant.  If for example your VPN network is
10.10.10.0/30.  You may have the address 10.10.10.1 while the remote
side has the address 10.10.10.2.   The remote address is what we need.
 Changing the default gateway is done with the "route CHANGE" command.
Example: route CHANGE 0.0.0.0 MASK 0.0.0.0 <VPN IP address of the
remote Tinc participant>
Example: route CHANGE 0.0.0.0 MASK 0.0.0.0 10.10.10.2

You will now be using the remote VPN participant as your default
gateway to the internet.

The last thing to be verify is that the remote participant is
configured to route traffic, so be sure to enable IP routing on the
remote node and configure any necessary firewalls.

Scripting this would simply be adding these commands to a plain text
file with the ".bat" extension.  Windows will recognize it as
executable by default.

On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 05:33:57PM +0200, Benjamin Henrion wrote:
>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 5:31 PM, ZioPRoTo (Saverio Proto)
>> <zioproto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yes u can.
>>
>> But Tinc does not have all the right scripts for each platform to do
>> that without any pain.
>
> Indeed, only for Linux there are example scripts on the wiki:
>
> http://tinc-vpn.org/examples/redirect-gateway/
>
> If anyone knows how to do something similar on *BSD, MacOS/X or Windows, let me
> know.
>
> --
> Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
>     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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