Could not open /dev/net/tun

Guus Sliepen guus at sliepen.eu.org
Thu Sep 30 18:44:41 CEST 2004


On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 10:44:02AM -0500, Henry Burbano wrote:

> vpn.: error fetching interface information: Device not found
[...]
> vpn.: unknown interface: No such device
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
> vpn.: unknown interface: No such device
> SIOCADDRT: No such device
> Script tinc-up exited with non-zero status 7

I suspect you have the following line in tinc.conf, including the
trailing period:

Device = vpn.

Remove the period, or maybe even better, the whole line. If that doesn't
solve the problem, show us the contents of your tinc.conf again.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
    Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.eu.org>
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