Tinc connection does not come up when started as Windows service

[Guus Sliepen]

On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 11:59:44AM +0000, Chris Haaser wrote:

> it's been a while, but I have finally gotten around to testing that.
> The problem does not seem to be tinc itself, but the TAP adapter. Tinc writes key exchanges and packets and so on into its log, but Windows seems to have forgotten all about the tinc adapter - ipconfig does not show an entry for it, there are no routes for it etc.
> Just opening the TCP/IP properties in control center brings the connection back up.
> 
> Since the Win-TAP driver bundled with tinc seems to be quite old, I will try upgrading that from the OpenVPN site and see if it runs more stable.

You might need to run deltapall.bat and then addtap.bat to get a fresh
TAP interface.

Did you do any software upgrades around the time tinc stopped working?
Windows shouldn't forget about a network adapter without a reason.

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