On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:25 PM, richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinber...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm facing a strange issue on Windows 8. > It happens very often that the TUN/TAP adapter is not started and > OpenVPN is unable to setup IPs and routes. > > openvpn.exe writes over and over "Waiting for TUN/TAP interface to come > up...". > After ~30 seconds it continues without a proper network configuration. > This is very nasty because from the users point of few it looks like > the tunnel is up but nothing works. > > On the net I found some halve baked "solutions" for that issue. > Like disabling the Windows Firewall, disabling IPv6, setting the > DHCP-Client service to autostart, and so on. But nothing helped so far > nor really explained the root issue. > > Please see the attached log file. > (It is sightly censored to hide my customers name and public IP.) > > I ran also Wireshark on my TUN/TAP device while connecting. > When facing the issue zero packets were captured. So, it is not really > a networking issue between server and client. > > Can you please help me?
CC'ing openvpn-devel to reach the right audience. -- Thanks, //richard