X-Git-Url: https://tinc-vpn.org/git/browse?p=tinc;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Ftinc.texi;h=44bec212a4369a3b189cd791e15f3948f3ddb10b;hp=84ccce927d0ba58f39d2b3f861fa98f3eee05217;hb=dd888ca685176128bf41034208f3dbb220f9d832;hpb=3a3adf5b690e9be1390a5df3caee6af64b25838f diff --git a/doc/tinc.texi b/doc/tinc.texi index 84ccce92..44bec212 100644 --- a/doc/tinc.texi +++ b/doc/tinc.texi @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ \input texinfo @c -*-texinfo-*- -@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 $ @c %**start of header @setfilename tinc.info @settitle tinc Manual @@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ This is the info manual for tinc, a Virtual Private Network daemon. Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2002 Ivo Timmermans -, Guus Sliepen and +, Guus Sliepen and Wessel Dankers . -$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 @@ -40,10 +40,10 @@ permission notice identical to this one. @vskip 0pt plus 1filll @cindex copyright Copyright @copyright{} 1998-2002 Ivo Timmermans -, Guus Sliepen and +, Guus Sliepen and Wessel Dankers . -$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 @@ -635,12 +635,9 @@ ethertap devices: @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. @@ -650,7 +647,6 @@ following device file (unless it already exist): @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, @@ -684,7 +680,7 @@ number 655 is registered with the IANA. @example tinc 655/tcp TINC tinc 655/udp TINC -# Ivo Timmermans +# Ivo Timmermans @end example @@ -851,15 +847,15 @@ This option may not work on all platforms. @cindex ConnectTo @item @strong{ConnectTo = } -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 = } (/dev/tap0 or /dev/misc/net/tun) @@ -1932,10 +1928,10 @@ and join channel #tinc. @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})