Hi, On 22/11/16 16:10, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > (why -users? this is a -devel topic)
Moved to Openvpn-devel > > On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 03:44:08PM +0000, debbie10t wrote: >> this may be related to another trac but i could not find a suitable >> ticket, so posting here first for advice. >> >> It is a bit of a "corner case" but is is an error none the less. >> >> Client WinXP-SP2(etc) Openvpn v2.3.13 >> >> NOTE#1: The TAP device named "defaultc" does *not* exist on the client. >> >> Throws this error: >> Error: When using --tun-ipv6, if you have more than one TAP-Windows >> adapter, you must also specify --dev-node >> >> Exiting due to fatal error >> >> However, --dev-node *is* specified *and* I only have one TAP adapter >> installed. >> >> So the error message is not correctly identifying the problem that the >> specified device does not exist. > > There is no trac for that that I'm aware of. > > I agree that the error message should be more meaningful. > > OTOH, I'm not sure we *can* fix this in 2.3 with reasonable effort - Heiko > rewrote significant bits of "how we do stuff on Windows" for 2.4 to make > this particular error message go away completely - and that change is > not going to be backported to 2.3, because it's way too complex for a > bugfix. > Perhaps there should be a trac with this information ? > Could you please try to reproduce this with 2.4_beta1? I wonder what > the error message for "--dev-node references a non-existing device" > will then be - if it's still a non-useful error, it is much easier to > fix there. But I do hope that the error might actually be something > useful. > Win10 - Openvpn 2.4_beta1 Exact same test, result is: TAP-Windows adapter 'defaultc' not found Exiting due to fatal error So that looks ok. Thanks ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Openvpn-devel mailing list Openvpn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/openvpn-devel
