[WBEL-users] OpenVPN on WBEL

Ewan Mac Mahon ecm103@york.ac.uk
Thu, 4 Mar 2004 12:01:49 +0000


On Thu, Mar 04, 2004 at 05:22:32PM +1300, Joel Macklow wrote:
> Has anyone been successful in getting a OpenVPN tunnel working on WBEL?  In
> theory anying with a newer kernel than 2.4.7 has TUN/TAP included.  WBEL has
> the if_tun.h file and the dev/net/tun device, however modprobe tun barfs
> with 
>  
> modprobe: Can't locate module tun
>  
> Is the TUN/TAP device included in the WBEL/RHEL kernel?
> 
It's a module in the kernel-unsupported package. RH only include modules
in the main kernel package if they're happy to support systems using them,
everything else goes in the unsuported package.

Ewan