Hi,

I am not a windows user, so pleae excuse for writing without
substantial help.

On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 16:24:03 +0200
richard -rw- weinberger <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 2:25 PM, richard -rw- weinberger
> <[email protected]> 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?
> 
> ...still facing the issue.
> How can I help you with debugging this issue?

If you say "nothing is captured" the question from an outside view is
what kind of other tool or firewall is dropping the packets. Have you
found anything on this?

Maybe someone with more insights on the underlying layers and the
software stack of vpn on windows could give some hint.

Kardan

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