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Re: [Openvpn-users] Connecting RH 7.3 and Rh 9.0 using OpenVpn/TUN


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Connecting RH 7.3 and Rh 9.0 using OpenVpn/TUN
  • From: bishop <bishop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 04:29:00 -0700

Tina,

A point or two.

I have compiled openvpn without any compression, I also compiled vTun and
both are on Box1 i haven't done anything on the Redhat 9.0 box.

Have you compiled *tun* or is it really *vtun* you've compiled on the box? Note that vtun is a separate product from tun, and openvpn depends on tun and not vtun. VTun, actually, is a product that is somewhat similar to openvpn and which itself also works on top of tun.


As to hand-compiling it, shame on you! You don't need to do that! There are RPMs that can be used to install/configure tun and openvpn, and using the RPMs ensures that you're installing the product the same way as everyone else - which means that everyone else has a hope of debugging your setup. Also, if you just grabbed the tun source, built it and tried to install it on your 2.4 kernel system, you've at best wasted time and at worst Totally hosed the tun module that ships with your kernel - you may need to reinstall the kernel, or at least the tun.o it ships with.

[Folks, hold me back! Otherwise, I'll rant for an hour again on the hazards of hand-rolled software cowboys, meta-informational DBs being out of sync with the filesystem and other risky situations. Then I may wax on the virtues of RPMs by mentioning that installation and configuration of (something like) openvpn normally takes 3 minutes per box and far too little attention span]

 - bish
two paragraphs and a soliloquy

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	"War is waged by nations, but it is human beings who"
	"pay the price."	-- James Callis as Menelaus,
				   "Helen of Troy" Miniseries


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