Define which host to use when direct link not possible?

[Guus Sliepen]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 02:38:16PM +0200, Armin Schindler wrote:

> we use a meshed VPN with TINC to connect 7 offices.
> Some office are in other countries and use other ISPs. The connection
> between some ISPs (peering partners) are not that good. This means we
> have packet loss between those direct connections.
> 
> To avoid this direct connection, I would like to tell TINC to use
> a defined other host to route the packets to.
> E.g.
> instead of doing direct office-1 to office-2, send always packets
> for office-2 to office-5 (because connection with office-5 is very stable).
> 
> Is there a way to configure TINC to not use direct connection
> for one host, but use a specified, other host for that?

You can set IndirectData = yes in hosts/office-2 on hosts/office-1, and
vice versa, to prevent it from trying a direct connection.

Note that you also should not have ConnectTo = office-2 in office-1's
tinc.conf, and vice versa, otherwise the above will not have any effect.

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