Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2016 04:29:00 -0800, Grant wrote:

> The answer to this may be an obvious "yes" but I've never done it so I'm
> not sure.  Can I route requests from machine C through machine A only
> for my domain name, and not involve A for C's other internet requests?
> If so, where is that configured?

While ZT can be used to route requests between networks, but it is mainly
used to talk directly between clients. If A wants to talk to C over ZT,
it uses C's ZT IP address.

Here's a snippet from ifconfig on this machine, whch may help it make
sense to you

wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.6  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether c4:8e:8f:f7:55:c9  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)

zt0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 2800
        inet 10.252.252.6  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 10.252.252.255

To talk to this computer from another of my machines over ZT I would use
the 10.252... address. If you tried that address, you'd get nowhere as
you are not connected to my network.

Set up a network and play with it. It costs nothing to set up a network
with up to 10 clients. The main benefit is that it is so easy to
administer and add new clients. If you use it between two machines in the
same LAN, the traffic doesn't go outside of the LAN, so it works at more
or less the same speed.

> BTW, how did you find ZT?  Pity there's no ebuild yet.

Someone mentioned it during a talk at Liverpool LUG. It wasn't the topic
of the talk, he just used it to grab something from his home network to
answer a question. An ebuild would be nice, but the installer script
works perfectly here, both for systemd and openrc systems.


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Neil Bothwick

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