Tinc 1.0.26 on Mac OS X

[Maxim Vorontsov]

Mike, you can use ifconfig, it should work fine.

It can be something like this:

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig $INTERFACE 172.20.0.1 netmask 255.255.0.0

It no need to add up at the end of ifconfig string. And "ip route" can be
skipped too.


On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Mike Purvis <mpurvis at clearpathrobotics.com>
wrote:

> Hi Maxim,
>
>
> Not much to it:
>
> avahi-autoipd -D $INTERFACE
>
> # ifconfig $INTERFACE 169.254.45.23 netmask 255.255.0.0 up
>
> ip route add 172.20.0.0/16 dev $INTERFACE
>
>
> Mac OS X doesn't  have "ip" by default, so I also installed the Homebrew
> package "iproute2mac", which provides an emulation of "ip" on top of the
> legacy ifconfig/route calls.
>
> The commented-out ifconfig line was my attempt to replace avahi-autoipd with
> a fixed IP, just for demonstration purposes. But I get the same result
> using ifconfig to set the IP address.
>
>
>
> On 25 February 2016 at 23:40, Maxim Vorontsov <6012030 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> May you show your tinc-up script? And subnet-up, host-up if you have they
>> at all.
>>
>> On February 25, 2016 9:55:59 PM GMT+03:00, Mike Purvis <
>> mpurvis at clearpathrobotics.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to use tinc 1.0.26 from Homebrew on Mac OS X 10.10.5, and
>>> having some trouble. Is anyone successfully doing this?
>>>
>>> Here's my config:
>>>
>>> $ sudo cat /etc/tinc/robotvpn/tinc.conf
>>> Name = elendur
>>> Mode = switch
>>> AddressFamily = ipv4
>>> Interface = tincdev0
>>> Compression = 1
>>> ConnectTo = robot_ph_cpe22_04
>>>
>>> And here's the invocation:
>>>
>>> $ sudo tincd -D -c /etc/tinc/robotvpn -d
>>> tincd 1.0.26 (Nov  2 2015 06:12:50) starting, debug level 1
>>> /dev/tap0 is a Generic BSD tap device
>>> /etc/tinc/robotvpn/tinc-up: line 3: avahi-autoipd: command not found
>>> Usage: ip route list
>>>        ip route get ADDRESS
>>>        ip route { add | del } ROUTE
>>> ROUTE := PREFIX [ nexthop NH ]
>>> Script tinc-up exited with non-zero status 1
>>> Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 655
>>> Ready
>>> Trying to connect to robot_ph_cpe22_04 (10.27.200.104 port 655)
>>> Connected to robot_ph_cpe22_04 (10.27.200.104 port 655)
>>> Connection with robot_ph_cpe22_04 (10.27.200.104 port 655) activated
>>> Error while writing to Generic BSD tap device /dev/tap0: Input/output
>>> error
>>> Error while writing to Generic BSD tap device /dev/tap0: Input/output
>>> error
>>> Error while writing to Generic BSD tap device /dev/tap0: Input/output
>>> error
>>>
>>> I know I'm missing Avahi, and I'll have to deal with name resolution
>>> separately (this config originated on Ubuntu), but I'm trying to understand
>>> what is going on with the BSD tap device issues. Previously, tincd wasn't
>>> able to create the tap0 device at all, but I installed TunTap
>>> <http://tuntaposx.sourceforge.net/>, and now it does create it:
>>>
>>> $ ifconfig tap0
>>> tap0: flags=8842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>> ether 0e:27:1d:a7:4e:a1
>>> media: autoselect
>>> status: active
>>> open (pid 28939)
>>>
>>> I tried bypassing the Avahi config and just assigning it an IP manually,
>>> but it doesn't seem able to communicate.
>>>
>>> Any pointers what's going on here? Much appreciated,
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
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Maxim Vorontsov
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