tinc - Apr 2006 - Cannot open /dev/net/tun

Hi!

On two quite different servers I have the problem that I get this error 
message:

tincd 1.0.4 (Apr 21 2006 16:20:48) starting, debug level 3
Could not open /dev/net/tun: No such device
Terminating

The device is there:

~ # ls -l /dev/net/tun
crw-------    1 root     root      10, 200 Sep  9  2002 /dev/net/tun

As I did not create it myself my best guess would have been that it 
comes with the distro.

This is SuSE 8.1 (no typo) in one case and Debian Sarge with 2.4 kernel 
in the other case.

Is there a way to find out if the tap/tun device is compiled into the 
kernel?

Regards,
Torsten

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 05:18:05PM +0200, Torsten Schlabach wrote:
> On two quite different servers I have the problem that I get this error 
> message:
> 
> tincd 1.0.4 (Apr 21 2006 16:20:48) starting, debug level 3
> Could not open /dev/net/tun: No such device
> Terminating
> 
> The device is there:
> 
> ~ # ls -l /dev/net/tun
> crw-------    1 root     root      10, 200 Sep  9  2002 /dev/net/tun
> 
> As I did not create it myself my best guess would have been that it 
> comes with the distro.
Try "modprobe tun" and restart tinc, if it works add that command to
the
tinc-up script.
> Is there a way to find out if the tap/tun device is compiled into the 
> kernel?
If "modprobe tun" says "module tun not found", then either
it is not
compiled at all or it is compiled into the kernel. In the latter case
tinc would have worked without problems.

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