Re: [GSoC 2017] Point-to-point

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Congrats on the continuous good work :)

Joan Lledó, on dim. 06 août 2017 09:22:49 +0200, wrote:
> Currently, when the
> user adds --peer option to the command line, pfinet just assigns its
> value to an internal variable in the given interface, but it doesn't
> seem to be using it afterwards. The thing is that, actually, the stack
> doesn't need to know the peer address when working behind OpenVPN.

Currently, indeed.

The peer IP can be useful notably when setting routes, some people will
prefer to say "this prefix should go through this gateway", instead of
specifying an interface.

Samuel