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I am looking to use OpenVPN straight from the terminal instead of using a gui such as tunnelblick - but am encountering a couple of problems. I have tested my config file and it works fine so it is not the config fault.
The command I am running is
./openvpn connection.ovpn
The error message that I am getting is
Wed Mar 6 13:22:57 2013 us=528389 Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically
Wed Mar 6 13:22:57 2013 us=528401 Exiting due to fatal error
Which seems to be implying that a tun/tap kext cannot be found. I have tried to run the command
sudo kextload tun.kext
immediately prior to this and it seemed to load fine but I still get the above error. I am using the 64-bit tun.kext from the TunnelBlick project so it should not be a problem with the kext itself. Any ideas?
xizor
Posted 2013-03-06T18:27:12.877
Reputation: 421
3Even with root, it still says Thu Oct 17 14:49:45 2013 Cannot allocate TUN/TAP dev dynamically, Thu Oct 17 14:49:45 2013 Exiting due to fatal error... Any idea? – bibstha – 2013-10-17T12:50:22.463
@bibstha Do you have a Tun/Tap kext installed on the machine? – xizor – 2013-10-17T12:56:53.493
Oops no, I didn't execute the "sudo kextload tun.kest" part. However I could successfully login using tunnelblick without tun/pta driver. – bibstha – 2013-10-19T13:01:31.327