From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 29 07:36:53 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24ECB2A8 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 07:36:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B78F9150 for ; Wed, 29 May 2013 07:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id r4T7apQ9048668; Wed, 29 May 2013 08:36:51 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <51A5B013.5020905@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 08:36:51 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130516 Thunderbird/17.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pol Hallen Subject: Re: openvpn and tap device References: <51A52C3F.6010809@fuckaround.org> In-Reply-To: <51A52C3F.6010809@fuckaround.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 07:36:53 -0000 On 05/28/13 23:14, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi all! > > I installed openvpn (I use it like client). > > There isn't any "openvpn_enable=YES" and openvpn_if="tap" in rc.conf but > after start openvpn I can connect to openvpn server and clients. > > ifconfig doesn't show me any tap interface > > is it a correct situation? It's a while since I looked at OpenVPN, so this is from unreliable memory, but IIRC it uses tap devices under Windows and tun devices under Unix(ish) OSes. Do you see tun0 appear? -- In the dungeons of Mordor, Sauron bred Orcs with LOLcats to create a new race of servants. Called Uruk-Oh-Hai in the Black Speech, they were cruel and delighted in torturing spelling and grammar. _Lord of the Rings 2.0, the Web Edition_