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Re: [Openvpn-users] error: CreateFile failed on TAP device


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] error: CreateFile failed on TAP device
  • From: "James Yonan" <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 02:16:28 -0000

Daniel,

Do you have two TAP-Win32 adapters that show up in the control panel / network
connections window?  You need to have two separate TAP adapters and you need
each .opvn file to reference a different one using the "dev-node" config file
option.

James

Daniel <dhw377@xxxxxxx> said:

> Hi all.
> 
> I am using OpenVPN between two Windows machines (W2K and XP).
> 
> I have been able to successfully establish the vpn connections between the
> two machines. My problem comes in when I want to have one machine connect to
> two different OpenVPN machines.
> 
> For example, let's say I have computers A, B, and C. I connect A and B just
> fine. However, I cannot get A to connect to C at the same time A is
> connected to B. Here is the error message I get when I try to make the
> second connection:
> 
> Mon Sep 08 14:51:47 2003 8: CreateFile failed on TAP device:
> \\.\{2B996B0C-21AD-
> 4A09-B27F-96970185E3B2}.tap: I/O failure possibly related to sleep/resume
> activi
> ty (ERROR_GEN_FAILURE) (errno=31)
> Mon Sep 08 14:51:47 2003 9: Exiting
> 
> 
> I have two *.ovpn files in the config directory, and the second connection
> always seems to have this error.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
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