Tinc & moving VMs accross network

[Guus Sliepen]

On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 07:32:58PM +0000, Etienne Dechamps wrote:

> > When I move (hot move) a VM from a host to another, I have to restart
> > Tinc on node from where VM is coming to get access to that VM again.
> 
> I don't use tinc in Switch mode, but looking at the code (especially
> the learn_mac() function) it looks like tinc is not really able to
> migrate MAC addresses from one node to another in the way you'd
> expect. It will add the MAC address to the new node, but will not
> remove it from the other.

It actually does, search for the comment "Fast handoff" in
protocol_subnet.c. It should cause the old MAC entry to be removed in at
most PingTimeout (which defaults to 5) seconds.

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