Hi,
On 24/02/2017 15:52, Gert Doering wrote:
> To test whether a server is reachable and all the key handling is
> right, openvpn can connect with "--dev null --ifconfig-noexec" to
> avoid needing to the client with elevated privileges.
There seems to be a typo here. Did you mean "to avoid needing to
_connect to_ the client with elevated privileges"?
>
> This was erroring out for no good reason (because the "set environment
> variables appropriately" code didn't know if this is a tun or tap
> device...) - treat --dev null as "tap", done.
>
> Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <g...@greenie.muc.de>
> ---
> src/openvpn/tun.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/openvpn/tun.c b/src/openvpn/tun.c
> index 31585b32..12ce99d5 100644
> --- a/src/openvpn/tun.c
> +++ b/src/openvpn/tun.c
> @@ -560,7 +560,9 @@ is_tun_p2p(const struct tuntap *tt)
> {
> bool tun = false;
>
> - if (tt->type == DEV_TYPE_TAP || (tt->type == DEV_TYPE_TUN &&
> tt->topology == TOP_SUBNET))
> + if (tt->type == DEV_TYPE_TAP ||
> + (tt->type == DEV_TYPE_TUN && tt->topology == TOP_SUBNET) ||
> + tt->type == DEV_TYPE_NULL )
> {
> tun = false;
> }
>
--
Samuli Seppänen
Community Manager
OpenVPN Technologies, Inc
irc freenode net: mattock
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