Lion OS X tinc issues.

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Wed Apr 11 12:56:29 CEST 2012


On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:10:43PM -0700, Matthew Tolle wrote:

> I followed the instructions from: 
> 
> http://www.tinc-vpn.org/examples/macbook-install/
> 
> Ubuntu server <-> Ubuntu server works just fine with the same config. Ubuntu server <-> Mac laptop not so much. 
> 
> The error I'm getting is:
> 
> 2012-04-10 21:48:44 tinc.l3vpn[52621]: Error while writing to Generic BSD tap device /dev/tun0: Input/output error
> 2012-04-10 21:48:44 tinc.l3vpn[52621]: Error while writing to Generic BSD tap device /dev/tun0: Input/output error
[...]
> # cat tinc.conf 
> Name = laptop
> Mode = switch

I think you need to add "Device = /dev/tap0" to your tinc.conf. (Tinc is using
the wrong device by default in this case.)

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