ConnectTo Wildcard

[Guus Sliepen]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 06:20:38PM +0200, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:

> > And AutoConnect limits the number of meta connections, sounds like something
> > different to me.
> 
> You can set it to a very high value, if it is bigger than your number of 
> nodes then it means to try to connect to all of them.

In the next prerelease you cannot set the number anymore, AutoConnect
will be a boolean value, either it's on or it's off. If on, tinc will
try to keep at least 3 meta-connections. Simulations have told me that
that gives a very nice graph.

> In our network (220+ nodes) when we have them all connect to more than 
> 5-6 central nodes they create so much metadata traffic at connect 
> exchanging all the link infos that they overload the dsl-upstream of 
> some slower sites that those slower sites timeout, disconnect, 
> reconnect, and create even more metadata traffic, repeat...

This problem can surely be avoided somehow. But that's for after an
1.1.0 release.

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