tinc - Jun 2001 - questions

Hello,

I have a bunch of questions about configuring tinc. Here we go:

1. Is the /etc/tinc/vpn/passphrases directory still used? If so, what is it 
for? Do we need to create it when installing tinc from source?

2. As far as I understand, MyVirtualIP is not required in tinc.conf and is 
only used to pass the IP to tinc-* scripts. Is that correct? If so, how can 
we use it? I could not find much about this option in the documentation so 
if I am missing something, could you clarify?

3. If I only have two hosts that comprise a VPN, would it be ok to specify:

Subnet=192.168.1.1/32
and
Subnet=192.168.1.2/32

on both hosts, respectively? Or should I use

Subnet=192.168.1.0/24 on both hosts?

4. I noticed that there are a couple of things that are not present in the 
latest release but are still referred to in some documents, such as genreq 
and /etc/tinc/nets.boot. I assume that genreq is now obsolete and we should 
use tinc -K instead, correct?

Thanks,
Oleg


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On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 10:56:23PM -0000, digi =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A0 ?= wrote:
> 1. Is the /etc/tinc/vpn/passphrases directory still used? If so, what is it
> for? Do we need to create it when installing tinc from source?
No, since 1.0pre3, it's not.
> 2. As far as I understand, MyVirtualIP is not required in tinc.conf and is 
> only used to pass the IP to tinc-* scripts. Is that correct? If so, how can
> we use it? I could not find much about this option in the documentation so 
> if I am missing something, could you clarify?
Again, since 1.0pre3 things have changed a lot, the MyVirtualIP options has
been dropped completely, because these things can now be set in the tinc-up
script.
> 3. If I only have two hosts that comprise a VPN, would it be ok to specify:
> 
> Subnet=192.168.1.1/32
> and
> Subnet=192.168.1.2/32
> 
> on both hosts, respectively? Or should I use
> 
> Subnet=192.168.1.0/24 on both hosts?
The former.
> 4. I noticed that there are a couple of things that are not present in the 
> latest release but are still referred to in some documents, such as genreq 
> and /etc/tinc/nets.boot. I assume that genreq is now obsolete and we should
> use tinc -K instead, correct?
Yes.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
  Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.warande.net>
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