Thank you for your help.

Recompiling the driver from source fixed the problem.

Antoine

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Giovanni Tirloni <gtirl...@sysdroid.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Antoine Benkemoun <
> antoine.benkem...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am new to OpenSolaris coming from a Linux background. I have really been
>> enjoying OpenSolaris so far. I've almost always been able to find my way out
>> of different problems. This time I have got a seemingly harder problem.
>>
>> I have an OpenVPN installation that worked perfectly fine just yesterday.
>> This night my OpenSolaris Xen VM crashed and now OpenVPN doesn't work
>> anymore. I fixed a few bugs that were due to relative/absolute paths for
>> certificates but I still have a bug concerning the tun module.
>>
>> When I start OpenVPN, I get the following message :
>>
>> Fri Mar  5 10:24:53 2010 Can't open /dev/tun: No such file or directory
>> (errno=2)
>>
>> I have checked that the tun driver is loaded :
>>
>> ~# add_drv tun
>> Driver (tun) is already installed.
>>
>> It shows up in /dev :
>>
>> ~# stat /dev/tun
>>   File: `/dev/tun' -> `../devices/pseudo/cl...@0:tun'
>>
>> The only problem is that the destination of the symbolic link does not
>> exist. I have tried many things such as openvpn --mktun which is more or
>> less supposed to work on Linux but doesn't on OSol. I installed the tun
>> package via the Blastwave utility pkgutil.
>>
>> Does anyone have any pointers for checking/correctly loading the the tun
>> module ?
>>
>
>
> Have you tried unloading and loading the tun driver again ?
>
> Were there any changes to the environment that a recompilation of the
> driver would help ?
>
> This is how it looks here (b133, just compiled tun/tap driver):
>
> # ls -l /dev/tun
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2010-03-05 07:50 /dev/tun ->
> ../devices/pseudo/cl...@0:tun
>
> # ls -l /devices/pseudo/clo...@0:tun
> crw------- 1 root sys 11, 292 2010-03-05 07:51 /devices/pseudo/cl...@0:tun
>
> # dmesg
> [...]
> Mar  5 07:50:52 osol-dev tun: [ID 654686 kern.notice] Universal TUN/TAP
> device driver ver 1.1 03/05/2010 (C) 1999-2000 Maxim Krasnyansky
> Mar  5 07:50:52 osol-dev pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: tun0
> Mar  5 07:50:52 osol-dev genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] tun0 is
> /pseudo/t...@0
> Mar  5 07:50:52 osol-dev tap: [ID 654686 kern.notice] Universal TUN/TAP
> device driver ver 1.1 03/05/2010 (C) 1999-2000 Maxim Krasnyansky
> Mar  5 07:50:52 osol-dev pseudo: [ID 129642 kern.info] pseudo-device: tap0
> Mar  5 07:50:52 osol-dev genunix: [ID 936769 kern.info] tap0 is
> /pseudo/t...@0
>
> --
> Giovanni Tirloni
> sysdroid.com
>
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