Windows 7 support? Should I be able to PING over the VPN?

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:52:59AM -0400, Alan S. Lawee wrote:

> 1.        I see from the archives that Vista support requires downloading an
> updated TAP driver from OpenVPN.net.  I have just downloaded tinc 1.0.13 and
> was not able to get the TAP driver to work on my Windows 7 computer.  Should
> I assume that 1.0.13 doesn't have the most current TAP driver and I should
> use the one I downloaded from OpenVPN ?  There seems to be other issues with
> Windows 7 - the RSA keys are not stored in the same place by default as they
> are for Windows XP, so there may be other configuration changes to make.

1.0.13 should contain the exact same TAP driver as with recent versions of
OpenVPN. However, do try out the OpenVPN installer and see if that works.  You
need administrator rights to install the TAP driver, try right-clicking on
addtap.bat and select "run as administrator". There is also a 32-bit and 64-bit
version, choose the one matching your Windows isntallation.

> 2.       I've installed tinc on two Windows XP systems that are on the same
> LAN & subnet (192.168.1.0/24), but I configured them both to use a different
> subnet (192.168.3.0/24).  After adding routes at each end, I am able to ping
> the local interface on each machine, but not the remote interface.  Does
> this mean that something is not installed or configured properly, or is this
> normal behavior?

I think you have misconfigured something. You can start tincd.exe with the
extra options "-d5 -D", this will start tincd in the foreground and will show
you what it is doing. Try to ping then, and see if it shows anything related to
the ping message.

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