Bug 140760 - No tun device present
Summary: No tun device present
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Basesystem (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Kay Sievers
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Reported: 2005-12-22 15:23 UTC by Michael Stather
Modified: 2005-12-22 21:52 UTC (History)
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Description Michael Stather 2005-12-22 15:23:40 UTC 
I don´t know whether this belongs to enhancements or not, but I´m unable to use the vpnc daemon to connect to a VPN network, because there´s no /dev/tun deice present.
If I create one with "mknod -m 600 /dev/tun c 10 200" everything works well but after a restart the tun device isn´t there any more.
Since VNC connections are a common feature please include a /dev/tun in SuSE by default. I don´t think it hurts when the user doesn´t use vpnc.
Comment 1 Kay Sievers 2005-12-22 15:58:13 UTC 
tun is expected to be in /dev/net/tun.
Comment 2 Michael Stather 2005-12-22 17:40:51 UTC 
The vpnc which can be installed through YaST expects a /dev/tun, it doesn´t work when I don´t create the defvice by hand as shown above
Comment 3 Kay Sievers 2005-12-22 20:40:05 UTC 
Then it's a bug in one of the components. The vpnc binary expects the node in /dev/net/tun too. What do these commands print on your box:
  $ rpm -q vpnc
  $ strings /usr/sbin/vpnc | grep /tun
Comment 4 Michael Stather 2005-12-22 21:36:51 UTC 
Sorry it seems like it works now even without the /dev/tun device.
I tried it before and vpnc locked up, then I created the /dev/tun and it worked, so I thought this is the issue.
So you can close the bug report, thanks for your help.
Comment 5 Kay Sievers 2005-12-22 21:52:49 UTC 
/dev/net/tun is sufficient