Problem with tinc on Windows XP SP2

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sun, May 30, 2004 at 05:04:38PM +0200, Tim Schumacher wrote:

> I tried to use tinc on my Windows XP Box wich has Service Pack 2 RC1
> installed. I'm using the Tap-Win32 driver from openvpn 2.0 beta2 since
> they were the only working drivers.

Which other ones did you try, and what went wrong/what were the error
messages?

> Now here is the errormessage i recieve when I try to start tinc:
> 
> C:\Programme\tinc>tincd -D -n hive
> tincd 1.0.2 (Nov  8 2003 14:19:06) starting, debug level 0
> Could not get MAC address from Windows tap device
> {4913D822-DDD5-4C4B-BDBC-75274
> 07DA5C6} (VPN): wrong parameters.
> Not restarting.
> 
> I think this has somehow to do with the new security enhancing code in
> SP2, since with SP1 it worked.

Does it work with the OpenVPN 2.0beta2 TAP-Win32 driver with SP1?
Anyway, newer TAP-Win32 drivers have built-in support for point-to-point
mode, so tinc won't have to get the MAC address and simulate it itself
anymore. I'll try to change that.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
    Guus Sliepen <guus at sliepen.eu.org>
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