default gate via tinc

[Benjamin Henrion]

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 01:48:28PM +0800, Narcissus Emi wrote:
>
>> 2012/11/29 7:07 "albi" <albi at life.de>:
>>
>> > I have two tinc nodes which announce default gate to internet.
>> > How does tinc select which node is prefered when I route to the tinc
>> > device and not a special ip?
>> > tinc 1.0.16
>>
>> You can use switch mode to assign the specific  node as your gateway. On
>> router mode seems like it will automatically  choose one of it as your
>> gateway and cannot switch  from them.
>
> You can give each gateway's Subnet a weight, the one with the lower weight is
> preferred. Currently, if you have two identical Subnets with the same weight,
> the one owned by the node whose name sorts lower alphabetically is preferred.

Would it be possible to change that behaviour of sorting alphabetically?

I find it odd to rename host files in order to change the order of preference.

A variable in tinc.conf like Preference = "hosta, hostz, hostc" would
not be better?

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