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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: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 15:34:35 +1100

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:08:26PM -0500, Bradley Alexander wrote:
> [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?

Do you know if the tun device is being created?  You can make it with

openvpn --mktun --dev tun0


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