[ale] ReSolved: Q: getting /dev/net/tun for openVPN on RH-7.3

[John Mills]

ALErs -

I took two steps, but may not have needed both:

 1. I created 'character' nodes at /dev/net/tun and /dev/tun0 by:
    # mknod <device> c <Major#> <Minor#>

    (I picked 'Major#' and 'Minor#' similar to values assigned 
    dynamically in my 'devfs' system.)

 2. I forcibly loaded the 'tun' module, now in my rc.local as:
    insmod tun

Now when I 'sudo' the startup script, the VPN connection opens as it
should.

Firewall settings were not an issue because I'm running only a client, and 
allow outgoing connections without filtering.

Again, thanks to Jim for pitching in.

 - Mills

On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, Jim Popovitch wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-07-01 at 07:48 -0500, John Mills wrote:

> > Can I create the 'tun' device in a separate step?

> Yes.  Create tun0 first, then run openvpn thereafter.