Define which host to use when direct link not possible?

[Armin]

On 30.08.2016 17:37, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> 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.

Understood. But this will keep tinc from doing direct only, but it may
use *any* other host to transfer the data, right?

I would like to set a specific host (with best connection) to be the
'man-in-the-middle'.

Armin