On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Juergen Hennerich wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently building a Windows installer for a debian/coLinux based > embedded toolchain. > > For internet access I'm using the slirp daemon which is a zero > configuration solution and is working great. But for local access I have > to use a tap device. > > My problem is, while I can install the driver without a problem, I have > no idea how to configure the network interface. I need to find an unused > private subnet and set the IP address of the tap device. Since Windows > enumerates the devices in a way, I haven't seen through yet, I can't do > this with netsh. > > Is there an easy way to install the tuntap driver and set up the > interface address with openvpn? > > Or is there another way to reliably get a local connection configured? > (XP and Win2k). > > Is it also possible to automatically configure bridging?
See the tun.c code in OpenVPN, look for the #ifdef WIN32 code -- it will show you how OpenVPN sets up the TUN/TAP interface network settings using DeviceIoControl calls to the driver. James
