Running a dual Opteron with Debian Sarge(2.6.8-14-amd64-k8-smp) running openvpn.
I have set this up bridging eth0 and tap0 with br0.
Everything was working smoothly...all vpn clients connecting easily and the speeds were good. However, recently clients can still connect fine, but the speed is slower than a snail and thing hang here and there.
When I rebooted the server and ran the brigde-start script this is what I get:
Code:
Note: Cannot ioctl TUNSETIFF tap0 : Device or resource busy (errno=16)
Note: Attempting fall back to kernel 2.2 TUN/TAP Interface
Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/tap0 : No such file or directory (errno=2)
Exiting
I hadn't received this message previously. The funny thing is that the bridge is still made and tap0 is still brought up, but everything is ssslllooowww.
When I try to run the bridge-stop script it gives me a "permission denied" error message...even as root.
I have an idea that this started the same time I installed the smp enabled kernel last week, but since this is a heavily used sever I can't reboot with the previous kernel until later this evening when everyone is gone.
In the mean time any advice/info would be appreciated to help in my search for the culprit.
--Steve