Setup problems, /dev/net/tun FD in bad state

[Yang]

Turns out all I had to do was remove the "Device" line.

On 6/9/07, Yang cuztzan02-at-sneakemail.com |tinc|
<...> wrote:
> Hi all, I'm following the manual but I get the below error, and I
> believe tinc is clobbering my conf file.
>
> I've never set up VPN before, I'm just trying to connect to my work
> network from home. All the following is on my work computer. Thanks in
> advance for any help.
>
> $ ifconfig eth0
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1A:A0:17:3A:50
>           inet addr:172.24.104.145  Bcast:172.24.111.255  Mask:255.255.240.0
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:2897682 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:4548944 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>           RX bytes:746454774 (711.8 MiB)  TX bytes:5477269317 (5.1 GiB)
>           Interrupt:177
>
> $ tincd --version
> tinc version 1.0.4 (built Oct 25 2005 12:55:09, protocol 17)
> Copyright (C) 1998-2005 Ivo Timmermans, Guus Sliepen and others.
> See the AUTHORS file for a complete list.
>
> tinc comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software,
> and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
> see the file COPYING for details.
>
> $ ls -R /etc/tinc/yang/
> /etc/tinc/yang/:
> hosts  tinc.conf
>
> /etc/tinc/yang/hosts:
> zee
>
> $ cat /etc/tinc/yang/tinc.conf
> Name = zee
> Interface = /dev/net/tun
>
> [also tried setting /dev/tap0, but got exact same errors]
>
> $ cat /etc/tinc/yang/hosts/zee
> Address = yangzhang.corp.google.com
> Subnet = 172.24.0.0/16
>
> $ sudo tincd -d9 -K -n yang
> Generating 1024 bits keys:
> .......++++++ p
> .......................................................................++++++ q
> Done.
> Please enter a file to save private RSA key to [/etc/tinc/yang/rsa_key.priv]:
> Please enter a file to save public RSA key to [/etc/tinc/yang/hosts/zee]:
> Appending key to existing contents.
> Make sure only one key is stored in the file.
>
> $ sudo tincd -d9 -D -n yang 2>&1 | head
> tincd 1.0.4 (Oct 25 2005 12:55:06) starting, debug level 9
> /dev/net/tun is a Linux ethertap device
> Listening on 0.0.0.0 port 655
> Creating metasocket failed: Address family not supported by protocol
> Ready
> Error while reading from Linux ethertap device /dev/net/tun: File
> descriptor in bad state
> Error while reading from Linux ethertap device /dev/net/tun: File
> descriptor in bad state
> Error while reading from Linux ethertap device /dev/net/tun: File
> descriptor in bad state
> Error while reading from Linux ethertap device /dev/net/tun: File
> descriptor in bad state
> Error while reading from Linux ethertap device /dev/net/tun: File
> descriptor in bad state
> ...
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