On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 12:07:48PM +0000, [email protected] wrote: > I have been chatting with Tobias Volk, the author of PeerVPN, and I > did ask about the fragmentation support in PeerVPN. > > He replied: > > "this is not necessary since PeerVPN fragments/reassembles packets > itself." > > Perhaps this is a more recent development, or I have misunderstood.
Ah, you are correct, I see now it has a hardcoded maximum payload size of 1024
bytes, and indeed handles fragmentation and reassembly itself.
> If Tinc is not doing key regeneration every hour, what else is the
> TCP connection used for, if not exchange keys. Does it send data
> over regularly to keep firewall state active?
It does send keepalive packets over TCP as well to keep the connection alive.
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Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>
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