Re: [Openvpn-users] OpenVPN CentOS Problem Issue

[Joselito T. <jos...@gm...>]

Hi,

 When I run as root the command modinfo tun the display is this.
*
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.32.1.el5/kernel/drivers/net/tun.ko
alias:          char-major-10-200
license:        GPL
author:         (C) 1999-2004 Max Krasnyansky <ma...@qu...>
description:    Universal TUN/TAP device driver
srcversion:     23EC8E176639DE5F2DA2D21
depends:
vermagic:       2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 SMP mod_unload 686 REGPARM 4KSTACKS
gcc-4.1
module_sig:
883f3504d24ffbb59f555817d939ea9112a82c09f6a8588888271f5528944640a3f7bdd769eaaa760a08a76254af60772266157edea59dfbde7f294c70
*
When I run as root the modprobe tun. There is no error display but also
there is no output. It goes directly to the prompt.

Respectfully Yours,

Joselito E. Tapangan
Network Administrator
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On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:42 AM, Jan Just Keijser <ja...@ni...> wrote:

> do (as root)
>  modinfo tun
>  modprobe tun
>
> if the second command returns an error , then there's something wrong with
> your CentOS installation ; after the 'modprobe' do an
>  lsmod | grep tun
> to see if the device is actually listed.
>
> HTH,
>
> JJK
>
>
>
>
> Joselito Tapangan wrote:
>
>> Here is the content of my Config File;
>>
>> /port 1194
>> proto udp
>> dev tun0
>>
>> ca /etc/openvpn/keys/ca.crt
>> cert /etc/openvpn/keys/server.crt
>> key /etc/openvpn/keys/server.key
>> dh /etc/openvpn/keys/dh1024.pem
>>
>> server 10.10.0.0 255.255.255.0
>> client-config-dir ccd
>> push "dhcp-option DNS "
>> push "dhcp-option DNS "
>> push "dhcp-option DISABLE-NBT"
>> push "dhcp-option DOMAIN "
>> push "route 192.168.0.0 255.255.255.0"
>> push "redirect-gateway def1"
>> keepalive 10 120
>> comp-lzo
>> persist-key
>> persist-tun
>> status /var/log/openvpn/server-tcp.log
>> ifconfig-pool-persist /var/log/openvpn/ipp.txt
>> log-append /var/log/openvpn/openvpn.log
>> verb 4
>> client-to-client
>> duplicate-cn
>>
>> user nobody
>> group nobody/
>>
>>
>> I already did change the dev tun0 to dev tun in the config file but I
>> still It has an error. The only thing not identical to the HOWTOforge.com is
>> the Version of CentOS and the Version of OpenVPN cause I am using the
>> latest. I am also running this natively. The only thing I am confused is
>> that how to see if the tun module is running. Anyone could tell how to check
>> it?
>>
>> explicitly in the config file? try using
>>  dev tun
>>
>> Is your server configuration identical to the one in the HOWTOforge.com ?
>> Is the 'tun' module loaded before OpenVPN is started ?
>> Are you running natively or are you running on e.g. OpenVZ / VPS ?
>>
>>
>