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The TINC HOWTO
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Wessel Dankers
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wsl@nl.linux.org
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Introduction
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------------
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Tinc is a system to create a virtual ethernet network on top of an existing
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infrastructure. This infrastructure can be anything from modem lines to
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gigabit ethernet networks, as long as they talk IP. Once you install and
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configure tinc, your host will get an extra IP address, just like it would
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when you stick an extra ethernet card into it. Using this IP address, it can
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communicate with all hosts in its virtual network using strong encryption.
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If you install Tinc on a router (and pick your numbers correctly) you can
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have the router forward all packets. This way you can---instead of
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connecting hosts---connect entire sites together! Now you need only one
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outgoing network connection for both internet and intranet.
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Getting Tinc
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------------
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Before you fetch the latest tarball, you might want to check if there's a
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package for your Linux distribution. One of the main authors is a Debian
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Developer, so you can expect the Debian packages to be very up to date.
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The official website for Tinc can be found at http://tinc.nl.linux.org/.
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There you can find Debian packages, RPM's and of course... the tarball!
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Since we run Doohickey Linux Pro 1.0, for which no package exists (or
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indeed the distribution itself) we shall compile the package ourselves.
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Building
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--------
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The Tinc source adheres to so many standards it makes you head spin.
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Even the debug messages have been localized! Amazing. Tinc also comes
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with a configuration script. If you like to see what is there to
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configure run ./configure --help | more. If you don't have time for such
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nonsense:
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./configure --sysconfdir=/etc
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This will see if your system is nice enough to run tinc on, and will
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create some Makefiles and other stuff which will together build tinc.
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make
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make install
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The first will do the actual build, the second copies all files into place.
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The kernel
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FIXME
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Configuring
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The first thing we should do is pick network numbers. Tinc has a very
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peculiar taste for network numbers, which is caused by the way it routes
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traffic. However, it turns out to be really handy if you want to use
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your tinc host as a router for a site.
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The numbers have to be in a range that is not yet in use in your existing,
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real network! In this example we will use numbers from the 192.168.0/16
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range. This is standard CIDR notation for all IP addresses from 192.168.0.0
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to 192.168.255.255. The /16 means that the first 16 bits form the network
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part.
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In the example we will connect three machines: f00f, fdiv and hlt. We will
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give each an address, but not just that, also a slice of our address space
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to play with.
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Host Real address Tinc network
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f00f 126.202.37.20 192.168.1.1/24
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fdiv 126.202.37.81 192.168.2.1/24
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hlt 103.22.1.218 192.168.3.1/24
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It is very important that none of the Tinc netmasks overlap! Note how the
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192.168.0/16 network covers the entire address space of the three hosts.
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We will refer to the 192.168.0/16 network as the `umbrella' from now on.
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As you can see we can fit 256 hosts into this umbrella this way, which is
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also the practical maximum for tinc.
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Let's create a configuration file for f00f. We have to put it in /etc/tinc,
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unless you participate in multiple umbrella's (more on that later).
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