OpenVPN Support Forum

Hi Guys!

I need some help here with OpenVPN in order to put it runing a remote network connection. It involves client-server work that I am doing from home: Client Linux (my notebook) -- Server Windows. In my notebook I have installed a tri-boot with FC/Suse/Solaris.

So, to put VPN to connect properly it requires TUN/TAP driver. Then, when I run...

# openvpn --mktun
Options error: You must define TUN/TAP device (--dev)

Any directions are mostly appreciated!

threaderslash wrote:So, to put VPN to connect properly it requires TUN/TAP driver. Then, when I run...

# openvpn --mktun
Options error: You must define TUN/TAP device (--dev)

Any directions are mostly appreciated!

It's telling you you're missing the --dev argument to the command. It doesn't know whether you want to create a tap device or tun device. This is covered in the man page, as far as which you need. Most people need the tun device.

HTH

thanks for the feedback. yesterday at the end of the day, I tried this:

# openvpn --mktun --dev tun0
Tue Jun 30 21:58:11 2009 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Tue Jun 30 21:58:11 2009 Persist state set to: ON

I have also done on FC10: system --> preferences --> internet and network --> network connections --> VPN

choose the option: VPN Connection 1 [x] connect automatically.
Gateway: the remote server IP
Authentication type: password
User name: admID
CA certificate

IPv4 Method: Automatic VPN.

Then I try to connect remotely, and it does not work.

I would suggest talking to the folks in ##openvpn on irc.freenode.net. They'll ask for your configs and log files to be able to help you out. Someone is usually there pretty much any time of day.

Did you specify the dev parameter in the config file?

Paste your configs (client/server) here, or on a pastebin and link them.