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[Openvpn-users] tun device on 2.6?


  • Subject: [Openvpn-users] tun device on 2.6?
  • From: Bradley Alexander <storm@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 23:08:26 -0500

I have just built a Sparc Ultra 2 with Debian/unstable and a locally compiled
2.6.3 kernel. I am trying to run openvpn, which requires use of the tun
device. I set up /dev/net/tun as noted in the kernel documentation, but
when I try to bring the device up by hand, I get 

[root@neghvar net]# ifconfig tun0 up
tun0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

When I boot 2.4.24, the device works fine. Am I missing some software that
2.6 requires or is it broken? I searched on google for anything regarding
this issue, but the only thing I found was a two-message thread on the
kernel list saying "tun is broken on 2.6.3" and "no its not, I'm using it"
with very few details. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
-- 
--Brad
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Debian/GNU Linux Developer          |   storm [at] debian.org
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