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Old 02-25-2007, 12:50 AM   #1
brokenflea
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/dev/tun not working after a kernel upgrade


Hello,

I just upgraded to kernel 2.6.15 on slackware 11.0 and now after I try running openvpn I get a:

Code:
Sat Feb 24 23:18:33 2007 Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: No such device (errno=19)
Sat Feb 24 23:18:33 2007 Note: Attempting fallback to kernel 2.2 TUN/TAP interface
Sat Feb 24 23:18:33 2007 Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically
Sat Feb 24 23:18:33 2007 Exiting
Here's my kernel config file where tunnelling is specified

Code:
CONFIG_INET_AH=y
CONFIG_INET_ESP=y
CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP=y
CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL=y
CONFIG_INET_DIAG=y
CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG=y
Also, I don't have a tun directory in /dev. So I created one using mkdir and then did a mknod /dev/net/tun c 10 200 ,
but that doesn't work either.

Where should I start looking next.
Any help is gladly appreciated


TIA
 
Old 02-26-2007, 12:18 AM   #2
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Figured it out, I had left out CONFIG_TUN=n in my kernel config. Everything works now.
 
  


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