Re: [Xen-users] DomU and vpnc

[Dominic Hargreaves <dom@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 04:39:59PM +0000, Andrew McGregor wrote:

> Should vpnc work on a DomU?  Or does it require direct access to some 
> device it can't see?

I can't think why this wouldn't work. The error message is a little
unclear, but you do have the tun kernel module available, right?

>From memory, vpnc shouldn't really require anything special at the
kernel/hardware layer apart from the tun module.

Cheers,

Dominic.

> xen-domu:~# vpnc
> Enter IPSec gateway address: HOST
> Enter IPSec ID for HOST: USERNAME
> Enter IPSec secret for USERNAME@HOST:
> Enter username for HOST: USER
> Enter password for USER@HOST:
> vpnc: can't open /dev/net/tun, check that it is either device char 10 
> 200 or (with DevFS) a symlink to ../misc/net/tun (not misc/net/tun): No 
> such device
> vpnc: can't initialise tunnel interface: No such device
> 
> 
> ls -l /dev/net/tun
> crw-r----- 1 root root 10, 200 Dec 18 16:13 /dev/net/tun
> 
> 
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