Can you give some more detail about the specifics of the network? Such as the subnetting? Is the Tinc interface on A bridged?<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Christian Lyra <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lyra@pop-pr.rnp.br">lyra@pop-pr.rnp.br</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi there,<br><br>I´m trying to use tinc to solve this scenario:<br><br>Host A has public/know ip address<br>
Hosts B and C are behind nat<br><br>I´m using switch mode, and hosts B and C has IndirectMode enabled.<br>Host A is in listen only mode (no ConnectTo set), hosts B and C<br>connects to A. Everything works almost as expected... B and C<br>
connects to A, and they can ping each other, but ONLY after each other<br>learns the other MAC thru A. What I mean is: if I start A, B, C, and<br>try to ping C from B, ping will fail, but if I send a ping to A from<br>C, then B will be able to ping C as it will learn the MAC of C thru A.<br>
If there´s no traffic between the hosts for a while, then the arp<br>entries will expire from arp tables and the problem will happen again.<br><br>Is there a way to solve this with a tinc configuration? leaving a cron<br>
job to make nated hosts ping A is not a elegant option :-(<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>Christian Lyra<br>PoP-PR/RNP<br>_______________________________________________<br>tinc mailing list<br><a href="mailto:tinc@tinc-vpn.org">tinc@tinc-vpn.org</a><br>
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