Hi, On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 05:01:49PM +0000, debbie10t wrote: > >> 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 ?
The commit in question in master / 2.4 is
commit 533495298bd93ddaaf4418dc666922779ce5ef9b
Author: Heiko Hund <heiko.h...@sophos.com>
Date: Fri Jun 24 18:01:41 2016 +0200
Windows: do_ifconfig() after open_tun()
When you had multiple TAP adapters and IPv6 configured you got an error
message about "you must also specify --dev-node" and openvpn exited.
Very inconvenient especially since this is only due to the fact that
Windows tries to set the adapter address before it is opened; for no
good reason.
it does not reference a trac ticket, so most likely one does not exist
(and we only discussed the issue on #openvpn-devel)
I do not think we have cycles to fix this for 2.3, so a trac would be
pure documentation ("yes, this is nasty in 2.3, but it is fixed in 2.4
and we want you to upgrade anyway") - so if you can do that, it would
certainly be useful.
> > 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.
This is what I hoped for - thanks, Heiko :-) - and thanks for testing.
gert
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