Doc enhancement

Doc enhancement

[Bzzzz]

Hi maillisters,


my concern is about the site's doc.

I spent a lot of time before getting the configuration files right
because of a small lack in the doc:

it is missing a few lines explaining that what's appears a "weird"
network notation has in fact 2 purposes, setting the VPN interface IP
address and the segment width.

This simple supplementary explanation could spare a lot of potential
users hours of ranting=E2=80=A6 ;)

Disclaimer: I don't do very much networking apart the usual into
Linux, so not on the head (nor the balls!)

Jean-Yves

Re: Doc enhancement

[Jonathon Fernyhough]

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On 02/05/17 15:51, Bzzzz wrote:
> it is missing a few lines explaining that what's appears a "weird"
> network notation has in fact 2 purposes, setting the VPN interface IP
> address and the segment width.

Do you mean 192.168.88.0/24 ? That's the standard annotation for IP
subnets (e.g. 10.0.0.0/16, 192.168.0.0/24, 8.8.8.8/32).

J


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Re: Doc enhancement

[Ben Lebherz]

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And it is called CIDR-Notation if you want to search for more information.

Ben

Jonathon Fernyhough <jonathon.fernyhough@york.ac.uk> schrieb am Di. 2. Mai
2017 um 16:59:

> On 02/05/17 15:51, Bzzzz wrote:
> > it is missing a few lines explaining that what's appears a "weird"
> > network notation has in fact 2 purposes, setting the VPN interface IP
> > address and the segment width.
>
> Do you mean 192.168.88.0/24 ? That's the standard annotation for IP
> subnets (e.g. 10.0.0.0/16, 192.168.0.0/24, 8.8.8.8/32).
>
> J
>
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Re: Doc enhancement

[Bzzzz]

On Tue, 2 May 2017 15:57:49 +0100
Jonathon Fernyhough <jonathon.fernyhough@york.ac.uk> wrote:

No, I mean e.g.: 10.11.12.1/24

at first, I thought it was a typo and added 2 'Address' lines in the
configuration file, one for the wg0 IP and one for the segment; but I
was wrong as the above notation is the way to go.
However, it is not publicized anywhere, so it took me 'some' time to
figure this out.

> Do you mean 192.168.88.0/24 ? That's the standard annotation for IP
> subnets (e.g. 10.0.0.0/16, 192.168.0.0/24, 8.8.8.8/32).