keeping UDP "session" alive when using NAT

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:55:15PM -0400, Nathan Stratton Treadway wrote:

> I see that the PingInterval setting allows me to set a minimum inactivity
> period on the metadata connection, and that seems to be enough to
> prevent the TCP session from timing out in the router... but I haven't
> found any way cause Tinc to ensure the data/UDP "session" also stays
> active.
> 
> (I'm currently using v1.0.x, but I checked the v1.1 documentation on the
> web site as well and didn't see any new features that appeared to apply
> to this situation.)

Which version are you using exactly? Recent versions also send UDP packets at
the PingInterval, this is part of the PMTUDiscovery feature which is enabled by
default.

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