From 5cd0f940c7334959534d3ab4e1f3c7cac67ee38a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wessel Dankers Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 20:42:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] added bit on config file, split up sections, added Id: tag --- doc/HOWTO | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/HOWTO b/doc/HOWTO index f6511bf0..9b14b2fa 100644 --- a/doc/HOWTO +++ b/doc/HOWTO @@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ have the router forward all packets. This way you can---instead of connecting hosts---connect entire sites together! Now you need only one outgoing network connection for both internet and intranet. +Architecture +------------ +FIXME + Getting Tinc ------------ Before you fetch the latest tarball, you might want to check if there's a @@ -52,8 +56,8 @@ The kernel ---------- FIXME -Configuring ------------ +Picking your numbers +-------------------- The first thing we should do is pick network numbers. Tinc has a very peculiar taste for network numbers, which is caused by the way it routes traffic. However, it turns out to be really handy if you want to use @@ -65,6 +69,10 @@ range. This is standard CIDR notation for all IP addresses from 192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255.255. The /16 means that the first 16 bits form the network part. +It is common practice for Tinc networks to use private (RFC 1918) addresses. +This is not necessary, but it would be a waste to use official addresses +for a private network! + In the example we will connect three machines: f00f, fdiv and hlt. We will give each an address, but not just that, also a slice of our address space to play with. @@ -80,6 +88,28 @@ It is very important that none of the Tinc netmasks overlap! Note how the We will refer to the 192.168.0/16 network as the `umbrella' from now on. As you can see we can fit 256 hosts into this umbrella this way, which is also the practical maximum for tinc. - + +The configuration file +---------------------- Let's create a configuration file for f00f. We have to put it in /etc/tinc, unless you participate in multiple umbrella's (more on that later). + + MyOwnVPNIP = 192.168.1.1/24 + VpnMask = 255.255.0.0 + ConnectTo = 126.202.37.81 + ConnectTo = 103.22.1.218 + +The first two lines tell Tinc about the numbers we have chosen above. +Using the ConnectTo lines, the daemon will seek contact with the rest of +the umbrella. It's possible to configure any number of ConnectTo lines, +you can even omit them so that it just sits and waits until someone else +contacts it. Until someone does, the poor daemon won't be able to send +any data because it doesn't know where everybody is. + +The passphrases +--------------- +We will have to generate keys for ourselves, and get a key from everybody +we want to ConnectTo. + +-- +$Id: HOWTO,v 1.2 2000/06/30 20:42:07 wsl Exp $ -- 2.39.5