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-@c $Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.29 2002/06/12 13:45:23 guus Exp $
+@c $Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.31 2002/07/16 13:18:27 guus Exp $
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@setfilename tinc.info
@settitle tinc Manual
This is the info manual for tinc, a Virtual Private Network daemon.
Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2002 Ivo Timmermans
-<itimmermans@@bigfoot.com>, Guus Sliepen <guus@@sliepen.warande.net> and
+<ivo@@o2w.nl>, Guus Sliepen <guus@@sliepen.eu.org> and
Wessel Dankers <wsl@@nl.linux.org>.
-$Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.29 2002/06/12 13:45:23 guus Exp $
+$Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.31 2002/07/16 13:18:27 guus Exp $
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
@vskip 0pt plus 1filll
@cindex copyright
Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2002 Ivo Timmermans
-<itimmermans@@bigfoot.com>, Guus Sliepen <guus@@sliepen.warande.net> and
+<ivo@@o2w.nl>, Guus Sliepen <guus@@sliepen.eu.org> and
Wessel Dankers <wsl@@nl.linux.org>.
-$Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.29 2002/06/12 13:45:23 guus Exp $
+$Id: tinc.texi,v 1.8.4.31 2002/07/16 13:18:27 guus Exp $
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
@example
mknod -m 600 /dev/tap0 c 36 16
-chown 0.0 /dev/tap0
mknod -m 600 /dev/tap1 c 36 17
-chown 0.0 /dev/tap0
...
mknod -m 600 /dev/tap@emph{N} c 36 @emph{N+16}
-chown 0.0 /dev/tap@emph{N}
@end example
There is a maximum of 16 ethertap devices.
@example
mknod -m 600 /dev/tun c 10 200
-chown 0.0 /dev/tun
@end example
If you use Linux, and you run the new 2.4 kernel using the devfs filesystem,
@example
tinc 655/tcp TINC
tinc 655/udp TINC
-# Ivo Timmermans <itimmermans@@bigfoot.com>
+# Ivo Timmermans <ivo@@o2w.nl>
@end example
@cindex ConnectTo
@item @strong{ConnectTo = <name>}
-Specifies which host to connect to on startup. Multiple ConnectTo
-variables may be specified, if connecting to the first one fails then
-tinc will try the next one, and so on. It is possible to specify
-hostnames for dynamic IP addresses (like those given on dyndns.org),
-tinc will not cache the resolved IP address.
+Specifies which other tinc daemon to connect to on startup.
+Multiple ConnectTo variables may be specified,
+in which case outgoing connections to each specified tinc daemon are made.
+The names should be known to this tinc daemon
+(i.e., there should be a host configuration file for the name on the ConnectTo line).
-If you don't specify a host with ConnectTo, regardless of whether a
-value for ConnectPort is given, tinc won't connect at all, and will
-instead just listen for incoming connections.
+If you don't specify a host with ConnectTo,
+tinc won't try to connect to other daemons at all,
+and will instead just listen for incoming connections.
@cindex Device
@item @strong{Device = <device>} (/dev/tap0 or /dev/misc/net/tun)
@section Authors
@table @asis
-@item Ivo Timmermans (zarq) (@email{itimmermans@@bigfoot.com})
+@item Ivo Timmermans (zarq) (@email{ivo@@o2w.nl})
Main coder/hacker and maintainer of the package.
-@item Guus Sliepen (guus) (@email{guus@@sliepen.warande.net})
+@item Guus Sliepen (guus) (@email{guus@@sliepen.eu.org})
Originator of it all, co-author.
@item Wessel Dankers (Ubiq) (@email{wsl@@nl.linux.org})