OpenVPN fails
Hi,
I have a VPS running up to date wheezy, with an OpenVPN server, and a
wheezy box at home running an OpenVPN client. this used to work fine
last year. I haven't had cause to use it much recently, and I now find
it's died. I don't know when, or what changed to cause the fault.
It appears that the client end is failing to start; running
openvpn /etc/openvpn/tony-lx.conf ends up with:
Mon Oct 5 15:08:50 2015 ROUTE default_gateway=192.168.1.1
Mon Oct 5 15:08:50 2015 Note: Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: No
such device (errno=19)
Mon Oct 5 15:08:50 2015 do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0,
tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Mon Oct 5 15:08:50 2015 /sbin/ifconfig 10.8.0.22 pointopoint 10.8.0.21
mtu 1500
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFDSTADDR: No such device
: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
SIOCSIFMTU: No such device
Mon Oct 5 15:08:50 2015 Linux ifconfig failed: external program exited
with error status: 1
Mon Oct 5 15:08:50 2015 Exiting
Modprobe tun gives me
ERROR: could not insert 'tun': Unknown symbol in module, or unknown
parameter (see dmesg)
Running dmesg gives me many iterations of:
[1266903.741500] Loading kernel module for a network device with
CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev- instead
[1266903.743197] Loading kernel module for a network device with
CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev- instead
[1266903.744724] Loading kernel module for a network device with
CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev- instead
[1266903.746276] Loading kernel module for a network device with
CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev- instead
[1266903.747851] Loading kernel module for a network device with
CAP_SYS_MODULE (deprecated). Use CAP_NET_ADMIN and alias netdev- instead
[1267669.932889] tun: Unknown symbol ipv6_proxy_select_ident (err 0)
So, the tun module is failing to load; but now I'm out of ideas to try
further. Can anyone please point me in the right direction?
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Tony van der Hoff | mailto:tony@vanderhoff.org
Buckinghamshire, England |
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