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This is the README file for tinc version 1.0.
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Installation instructions may be found in the INSTALL file.
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tinc is Copyright (C) 1998,1999,2000 Ivo Timmermans
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<itimmermans@bigfoot.com>, Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.warande.net> and
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others. For a complete list of authors see the AUTHORS file.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
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your option) any later version. See the file COPYING for more details.
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Requirements
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Since 1.0pre3, we use OpenSSL for all cryptographic functions. So you
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need to install this library first; grab it from
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http://www.openssl.org/. We recommend version 0.9.5 or better. If
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this library is not installed on you system, configure will fail. The
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manual in doc/tinc.texi contains more detailed information on how to
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install this library.
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Features
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This version of tinc supports multiple virtual networks at once. To
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use this feature, you may supply a netname via the -n or --net
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options. The standard locations for the config files will then be
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/etc/tinc/<net>/. Because of this feature, tinc will send packets
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directly to their destinations, instead of to the uplink. If this
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behaviour is undesirable (for instance because of firewalls or
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other restrictions), please use an older version of tinc (I would
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recommend tinc-0.2.19).
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In this version, MAC addresses are stripped off before encoding and
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sending a packet. When the packet reaches its destination, the MAC
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addresses are rebuilt again. They then have the form
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FE:FD:aa:bb:cc:dd. aa, bb, cc and dd are taken from the destination
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and source IP address. See the manual for more detailed information.
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tincd regenerates its encryption key pairs. It does this on the first
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activity after the keys have expired. This period is adjustable in the
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configuration file, and the default time is 3600 seconds (one
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hour). If you send a USR2 signal to the daemon, it'll regenerate
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immediately.
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