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Re: tun device creation on boot



Hi, Mike.

On Sunday, 16 January 2011 09:59:30 -0800,
Mike Bird 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).

Perfect! Thanks for the explanation!

I had manually created these on /dev/net and then I used in the
config files something like this:

dev-node /dev/net/tun2



Thanks for your reply.

Regards,
Daniel
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