On 25 Jun 11:10, Mark Rogers wrote:
On 25/06/10 09:56, Brett Parker wrote:
Personally I'm currently using tinc, which is simple to setup between linux boxes, not yet had the misfortune of needing to connect via a windows box, though, but I believe that there is a client.
For no particular reason, I just started looking at tinc to see if I can understand how to use it for what I need.
Suppose I have computers A & B with tinc installed. Computer A is in office A connected to the Internet through a NAT router. Computer B is similarly connected in office B. (There is no direct path between them.)
What steps do I need to go through to get A and B to talk to each other via tinc? Can I do it without port forwarding in either router, eg by having server C sat on the Internet somewhere accessible to both? (And if I can, would all traffic between A and B therefore go via C?)
(I'm getting myself into a bit of a muddle trying to work out exactly what I'm trying to achieve here!)
I'd be using server C and connecting A and B to that, yes, traffic would then flow from A to B via C, but that's not neccessarily a bad thing, and is the element of least suprise.
There's also n2n available to directly connect the 2 ends, that relies on one "super node" that gets a connection from both and then gets the 2 to talk at each other instead. That may well be a better option.