On Friday, May 3, 2019 6:06 PM, Christopher Klinge <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I did some digging, and thus far I could not find any other culprit other 
> than tinc itself. The packages that are being sent are addressed directly to 
> the other tinc hosts on their vpn addresses. During my latest tests, within 
> about 12 seconds 100MB of data were transmitted this way. I captured this 
> test in wireshark. Sadly, I lack the expertise of understanding what is 
> happening.
>
> At the very beginning, normal connections are being set up and a few ICMP 
> neighbor advertisements/solicitations are being exchanged. Next a short TCP 
> session was created between the public IP addresses of two of my hosts, 
> through the VPN. This is something that I would like to support and 
> theoretically it should be possible. However, to me it looks like the 
> connection could not be established. Right afterwards, one of the nodes 
> involved in the TCP connection and the third node I used for testing started 
> exchaning the weird packages that I am complaining about.
>
> They are UDP packets varying in size and as far as I can tell unrelated to 
> any outside application. All of them belong to one connection. If anyone 
> would like to take a look at the dump itself, I'll provide it directly, since 
> I don't want to make all of my servers' addresses public.

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Could this be tinc connecting via tinc?

Perhaps try ip6tables rules.
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