Re: tinc throughput on alix machines

2010-03-17 Thread michael-dev
Hi Mike, Mike Bentzen schrieb: > You could try turning compression off, but will probably result in more > bandwidth being used. > But you might see a performance increase. thanks for that hint but I didn't enable compression in the config file so according to the man page there shouldn't be any

Re: Broadcast-Storm

2010-03-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 05:32:07PM +0100, Markus Dangl wrote: > I've got a small tinc network (switched) set up and it usually works > fine. But sometimes i get echos from my own broadcasts and sometimes > this even leads to a broadcast storm (two nodes forwarding the > broadcasts in circle, thus

Re: tinc throughput on alix machines

2010-03-17 Thread Jelle de Jong
Hi Michael, michael-dev wrote, on 17-03-10 01:36: > Does somebody have any numbers around on what one could expect on a > 500 Mhz machine using tinc with/without encryption or on what to > try out to improve throughput? I got a hole bunch of alix systems running with tinc to create a wan. I have

Re: Broadcast-Storm

2010-03-17 Thread Markus Dangl
Guus Sliepen schrieb: > Tinc does not understand STP, but it ensures that the tinc network itself is > loop free. So, you can see your VPN as a dumb switch, with each node being > one > port of that switch. I think that if you bridge the VPN interface to LAN > interfaces, and the bridge itself su

Check public/private RSA keypairs

2010-03-17 Thread Claus Strasburger
Hi together, i have a tinc vpn running on several local networks as well as on clients and am writing on a little "zeroconfig" tool to add new (newbie) clients to the net without having to vnc to them for ages. To do this easier, i wanted to have a possibility to check somehow if the public key sto

Re: connection error by more than 4 nodes

2010-03-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
Sorry for not responding earlier, On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 06:35:45PM +0100, deep_eye wrote: > i have 1 tinc-node which is reachable from internet. > If more than 3 clients connect to the "master", the fourth client (laptop) > could not connect the master and so on the others. > 1267735212 tinc.

Re: Check public/private RSA keypairs

2010-03-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 02:38:37PM +0100, Claus Strasburger wrote: > i have a tinc vpn running on several local networks as well as on > clients and am writing on a little "zeroconfig" tool to add new (newbie) > clients to the net without having to vnc to them for ages. > To do this easier, i want

Re: tinc throughput on alix machines

2010-03-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:36:58AM +0100, michael-dev wrote: > I've setup a wlan ap using a an alix 2d2 (AMD Geode LX 500 Mhz + AES Offload) > [...] the best throughput I get is aroung 2,9 MByte per second (wget+http) > (even if the client is run locally). Hm, Geodes are not very fast, but this d

Re: tinc throughput on alix machines

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Braun
Hi, Guus Sliepen schrieb: > This is necessary because some architectures impose alignment restrictions > that > would cause tinc to misbehave or segfault if you cast a random char * pointer > to a mac_t *. I wouldn't have ever imagined, thanks :) > >> Running gprof it reports no time spent but

Re: tinc throughput on alix machines

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Braun
Hi, Jelle de Jong schrieb: > I got a hole bunch of alix systems running with tinc to create a wan. > > I have no issues with the bandwidth throughput. I do not use the > crypto unit since the openssl lib does not (yet) work with the > hardware on debian gnu/linux. > > I use the following setting