Re: [Openvpn-users] Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: No such device (errno=19)

["Aaron P. Martinez" <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 06:58, marcusv wrote:
> Hi there List.
> 
> New to VPN so please bare with me.
> When doing the following,
> [root@mail2 sample-config-files]# openvpn sbsrv.conf
> 
> I get the following,
>  OpenVPN 2.0_rc6 i686-pc-linux [SSL] [EPOLL] built on Feb  1 2005
> Tue Feb  1 14:19:07 2005 us=501944 ******* WARNING *******: all
> encryption and authentication features disabled -- all data will be
> tunnelled as cleartext
> Tue Feb  1 14:19:07 2005 us=509392 Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev
> /dev/net/tun: No such device (errno=19)
> Tue Feb  1 14:19:07 2005 us=509601 Note: Attempting fallback to kernel
> 2.2 TUN/TAP interface
> Tue Feb  1 14:19:07 2005 us=583795 Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev
> dynamically
> Tue Feb  1 14:19:07 2005 us=584012 Exiting
> 
> OS= White Box Linux [Clone of RHEL 3.0]
> 
> But /dev/net/tun does exist,
> crw-r--r--    1 root     root      10, 200 Feb  1 14:09 tun
> 
> Any help / pointers would be appreciated.
> 
> Regards
> Marcus
More info please, 

How did you install openvpn?

Can you post your sbsrv.conf file?


Aaron Martinez


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