Re: tun device creation on boot
On Sun January 16 2011 05:44:56 Daniel Bareiro wrote:
> I'm using OpenVPN to connect two departments with a central department.
> For this I'm using routing. In the central department I have an OpenVPN
> server which is using the /dev/net/tun1 and /dev/net/tun2 devices that
> I've created manually.
>
> Debian only creates a /dev/net/tun device. How I can achieve that on
> boot these devices to be created? I had thought of adding lines to
> create in /etc/rc.local, but there may be a more appropriate way to
> do it.
/dev/net/tun is all you need.
In your various OpenVpn config files just specify "dev tun5" or
whatever.
"tun5" and friends will appear by magic when needed in /sys/class/net
(but not in /dev where they are not needed).
--Mike Bird
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