[Openvpn-users] Odd behavior installing 2.0-beta7 on WinXP

[Mathias Sundman <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I got an odd behavior while I installed OpenVPN 2.0-beta7 on a co-workers 
laptop with WinXP today.

The installation went through just as it should, and it did not tell me to 
reboot.

However, when I launched openvpn it could successfully open the tap 
device, so windows showed network status connected, but when it tried to 
assign the IP address, openvpn failed with a message about the device not 
existing any longer. Unfortunally I don't have the exact message left.

Checking in "My Network places" showed the tap interface as "Local 
Area Connection 2", and seemed to work.

But running ipconfig /all did not show the tap interface.

So, then we rebooted the PC.

After booting, windows came up with the standard "Found New Hardware" 
dialog and the TAP interface was installed. But this time "Local Area 
Connection 3" was created! So I ended up with 2, now working, tap 
interfaces! As my ovpn config-file didn't have any "dev-node" option, it 
failed starting now too, but after removing the second tap interface 
everything worked as it should...


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