--Am Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2004 17:18 +0100 juerg.vonbue...@amag.ch schrieb:
We are running into trouble with more than 100 virtual tunnel devices . The reported problem is as follows: Jul 1 06:30:19 1100PRVC001 openvpn[15520]: Note: Cannot ioctl TUNSETIFF
I assume you need the following patch: diff -urN linux-2.4.26.org/net/core/dev.c linux-2.4.26/net/core/dev.c --- linux-2.4.26.org/net/core/dev.c Wed Apr 14 15:05:41 2004 +++ linux-2.4.26/net/core/dev.c Thu Apr 15 18:54:01 2004 @@ -619,8 +619,12 @@ /* * If you need over 100 please also fix the algorithm... + * + * Maybe it's never needed but just to be sure we allow + * up to 1000 tun/tap devices. + * */ - for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) { + for (i = 0; i < 1000; i++) { snprintf(buf,sizeof(buf),name,i); if (__dev_get_by_name(buf) == NULL) { strcpy(dev->name, buf); -- Claas Hilbrecht http://www.jucs-kramkiste.de