<div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Bumping this in the hope someone can help me.</div><div><br></div><div>If all the questions are too much, could anyone answer #3: Is there any way to have multiple tinc daemons active-active advertising the same subnet with traffic distributed between the two? </div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Ryan, Justin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin.ryan@nytimes.com" target="_blank">justin.ryan@nytimes.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Multiple questions here, thinking one email is less annoying (sorry if not). Running tinc 1.0.31</div><div><br></div>1. Could anyone give an explanation (or point to documentation) of the differences between Connections, Nodes, and Edges in the USR1/2 logging, and the various information in there?<div><br></div><div>2. Connections appears to match the list of ConnectTo hosts in the main config file -- does this mean this node can only send packets (meta and data connections) directly to those hosts, and that packets destined to others will be relayed through the ConnectTo hosts? </div><div><br></div><div>"nexthop" seems to confirm this -- only Connections are nexthops -- but then ADD_EDGE and REQ_KEY meta messages (as documented here <a href="https://www.tinc-vpn.org/documentation/The-meta_002dprotocol.html#The-meta_002dprotocol" target="_blank">https://www.tinc-vpn.org/<wbr>documentation/The-meta_<wbr>002dprotocol.html#The-meta_<wbr>002dprotocol</a>) seem to imply direct data packets are possible.</div><div><br></div><div>3. What is the routing behavior when multiple nodes advertise the same subnet at the same weight? I think this is it: <a href="https://github.com/gsliepen/tinc/blob/master/src/subnet.c#L87-L97" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>gsliepen/tinc/blob/master/src/<wbr>subnet.c#L87-L97</a>, and it means that it's a lexical comparison between names, which will always be the same. We would prefer they be load balanced, due to...</div><div><br></div><div>4. Is it correct that tinc 1.0 is still single-threaded? I've seen some references to it becoming multithreaded, but have only ever observed it working on one cpu at a time, which typically is a bottleneck before bandwidth.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you! I'd be happy to PR documentation once I understand these things.</div></div>
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