Help needed with Tinc Setup on remote hosts and lots of ISPs / Failover Problems between ISPs

[Raimund Sacherer]

Thank you very much Guus and Sven, 

that sounds indeed very exciting, can't wait to try it out. 

Best regards, 
Ray 

----- Original Message ----- 

> From: "Guus Sliepen" <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
> To: tinc at tinc-vpn.org
> Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 10:35:48 PM
> Subject: Re: Help needed with Tinc Setup on remote hosts and lots of ISPs /
> Failover Problems between ISPs

> On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 10:26:18PM +0200, Sven-Haegar Koch wrote:

> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > ifconfig $INTERFACE 10.96.x.y
> >
> > Won't a netmask of 255.255.255.255 be better than not specifying any?
> > Otherwise it falls back to old classful adressing and would assume
> > 10.0.0.0/8 - which is clearly always wrong. [...] Or are tun devices
> > different in this regard?

> Hm, it seems that ifconfig indeed treats tun and tap differently, if you
> don't specify a netmask it applies a /32 for tun interfaces and a /8 for
> tap.

> Iproute is better I guess:

> #!/bin/sh
> ip addr add 10.96.x.y dev $INTERFACE
> ip link set dev $INTERFACE up

> > > Then, assuming you run tinc in router Mode (the default), you should
> > > create a script named "subnet-up" in the same directory as tinc-up, and
> > > put this in it:
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > ip addr add $SUBNET dev $INTERFACE
> > >
> > > And a "subnet-down" script:
> > >
> > > #!/bin/sh
> > > ip addr del $SUBNET dev $INTERFACE
> >
> > Don't you mean "ip route add/del" here?

> Yes, thanks for correcting me.

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

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