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Re: [Openvpn-users] Famous netsh and bye bye win2k


  • Subject: Re: [Openvpn-users] Famous netsh and bye bye win2k
  • From: "James Yonan" <jim@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 23:06:25 -0000

Jordi,

I'm sorry to hear about your bad experiences trying to uninstall the Tap-Win32
driver.  I've never seen this kind of problem before, though my general
impression so far has been that Win2K is not as robust as XP when it comes to
dynamic networking, i.e. loading and unloading drivers without an intervening
reboot, and changing driver properties on the fly.  The problem is that the
networking models for both Win2K and XP look the same on paper, but in
practice there are a lot of undocumented differences.  For example, on XP you
can install the driver and immediately begin using it.  On Win2K a reboot
appears to be required.  To make things even more complex, different service
pack levels often show different behavior.

On Windows the task of loading and unloading drivers is done by the OS, not by
the driver itself, so there's not much a driver can do to protect against
these kinds of problems. 

I've already made some changes which will be released shortly in 1.5b10 including:

* Providing options other than netsh to set the TCP/IP properties on the tap
adapter.

* Putting up a dialog box at the end of the Win2K install encouraging a reboot.

So again, I'm sorry you had a bad experience with the software and feel free
to email me if you have any other questions or concerns.

James

Jordi <vklengh@xxxxxxxxx> said:

> Hi all. I just installed on the past hours the B9, and i also got the error
similar of the one from Benjami:  ERROR: netsh command failed: system()
returned error code 1   
> 
> But i don't remember if it was the same exact message. Why? Easy, by then I
tried to uninstall the Tap-Win32 adapter, from the programs Openvpn menu, and
then to install it again. The result came into a nice mix of networking
problems, until my w2k pro stopped any kind of activity. It was like winsock
getting absolutely destroyed, it said everywhere: Can not perform a non socket
operation... or something like this... Simply incredible... Openvpn destroyed
my win2k in seconds. I Never managed to send a simple byte through the tunnel,
having a theoretically good configuration & key in both sides. After
reinstalling the entire operative system, Now I'm afraid of this program...
and I think i won't be brave enough to install it again... destroying O.S is
not really my passion nor yours i guess.


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