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On 10/7/05, Roger Håkansson <hson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Terry Dooher wrote: > > > > Wild conjecture time: Is it possible that some legitimate firewall or > > other security software has its hooks into XP's networking in such a way > > that the addition of the TAP adaptor causes it to break in some way, > > rendering the rest of your network devices inoperable, either by design > > (panic mode) or by fault? > > > > He reinstalled the laptop (due to the fact that you can't get a laptop > with swedish keyboard but with english XP) when he got it a few months > ago using a Windows XP SP2-DVD plus updates from Windows Update and he > hasn't installed any dodgy firewalls or other security software(except > Cisco's VPN 3000 software if you count that as "security software). Did he get the manufacturers drivers from their web site and install them? > Another of my users has a HP nc6220 which seem to have the same hardware > NICs and he has no problem with OpenVPN. > > I've asked him to try to uninstall the Cisco software and then try to > install OpenVPN, but I'm not sure that will do the trick since most of > us have both on our laptops (except the guy with the nc6220) and > desktops and there have been zero problems during the nine months we > have used OpenVPN. > > > With OpenVPN installed, try just removing the TAP adaptor, so we can see > > if the it's the driver or the software causing this. > > He says he can't do that, then the laptop totally hangs and he has to > reboot in safe mode and remove OpenVPN to be able to boot normally. > Just disabling the "TAP-NIC" doesn't work either, nothing happens when > he selects the "TAP-NIC"->(right-click)->Disable, not even after a reboot. > -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento. ____________________________________________ Openvpn-users mailing list Openvpn-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-users |