Tinc: Joining a network
You should have the following to join a network: - Tinc installed - An invite link (e.g. 79.91.202.97/SVublahX7LapWXJdBzd03jNn48bxuN83jVE_23VnL) - A network name (e.g. systerserver) - A VPN IP (e.g. 10.10.12.1)
Join VPN network
To join the network use:
Syntax:
sudo tinc -n <NETNAME> join <invite code>
so we did:
sudo tinc -n systerserver join 79.91.202.97/SVublahX7LapWXJdBzd03jNn48bxuN83jVE_23VnL
Add a subnet IP for you node
On the new node we will set the VPN ip address in the 10.10.12.x subnet, using the command below and the IP assigned to them.
Syntax:
sudo tinc -n <NETWORK NAME> add subnet <IP>
So we did:
sudo tinc -n systerserver add subnet 10.10.12.1
Edit tinc-up:
This will setup you IP and visibility on the network.
Go to the configuration folder if you’re not already there:
cd /usr/local/etc/tinc/<NETNAME>
you can use ls -a to see all files in there, then edit the file called tinc-up. We are using nano to do our text editing.
via nano:
sudo nano tinc-up
Once the file is open, edit it so it looks like this, filling in the correct details:
#!/bin/sh #echo 'Unconfigured tinc-up script, please edit '$0'!' #ifconfig $INTERFACE <your vpn IP address> netmask <netmask of whole VPN>
For servepub it would look like:
#!/bin/sh #echo 'Unconfigured tinc-up script, please edit '$0'!' ifconfig $INTERFACE 10.10.12.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
Test
To test and run the service with debug:
sudo tincd -n systerserver -D
Ping node
Now we should be able to ping the other nodes 🤞
ping 10.12.12.0