RE: tun device on 2.6?

From: Michael Kahle (michael.kahle_at_scc-wi.com)
Date: 03/03/04

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Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 10:28:01 -0600

    Hello Bradley,

    Bradley Alexander wrote:
    > I have just built a Sparc Ultra 2 with unstable and a locally
    > compiled 2.6.3 kernel. I am trying to run openvpn, which requires use
    > of the tun device. I set up /dev/net/tun as noted in the kernel
    > documentation, but when I try to bring the device up by hand, I get
    >
    > [root@neghvar net]# ifconfig tun0 up
    > tun0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device

    Did you compile the "Universal TUN/TAP device driver support" into the
    kernel when you built your kernel? I would first check this. You can find
    it under "Networking Support > Network Device Support" in menuconfig, or
    whatever you use for configuring the kernel.

    Michael 

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