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Re: [Openvpn-users] tun device on 2.6?


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] tun device on 2.6?
  • From: Patrick Lesslie <patricklesslie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 22:51:55 +1100

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:17:28AM -0500, Bradley Alexander wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 16:06:41 +1100
> Patrick Lesslie <patricklesslie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > Mar  3 22:27:03 neghvar openvpn[716]: Options error: options --mktun or
> > > --rmtun should only be used together with --dev
> > > 
> > > Should I run the openvpn --mktun --dev tun0 before starting the regular openvpn command?
> > 
> > Yep.  I run it during my primitive bridge setup init.d script
> > which is run after the normal networking startup.
> 
> I tried starting openvpn --mktun --dev tun0, then running the init.d startup file, and got the same failure.

What does your startup script look like?

Perhaps you can boot, run the --mktun, and then start openvpn servers
from the command line with something like openvpn --config file.

What a nice program.  :-)

Patrick Lesslie

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