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2025-02-24 12:28:07 Samuli Seppänen: Update to non-AI version
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- # Introduction
+ # Introduction
- OpenVPN [was split](wiki/ChangesInOpenvpn23) into several subprojects between 2.3-alpha1 -> 2.3-alpha2 releases. [Tap-windows](https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows) is an NDIS 5 driver which provides tap adapter capabilities on Windows. Support for NDIS 5 will be dropped in future Windows versions, which is why tap-windows has been deprecated by [tap-windows6](https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6) that uses NDIS 6 instead. Here's a table that shows the relation between the driver versions:
+ OpenVPN [was split](/ChangesInOpenvpn23) into several subprojects between 2.3-alpha1 -> 2.3-alpha2 releases. [Tap-windows](https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows) is an NDIS 5 driver which provides tap adapter capabilities on Windows. Support for NDIS 5 will be dropped in future Windows versions, which is why tap-windows has been deprecated by [tap-windows6](https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6) that uses NDIS 6 instead. Here's a table that shows the relation between the driver versions:
- | Installer name | Project name | NDIS version | Operating system |
- |-----------------------|---------------|--------------|----------------------------|
- | tap-windows-9.21.2 | tap-windows6 | 6 | Windows Vista and above |
- | tap-windows-9.9.2_3 | tap-windows | 5 | Windows XP |
+ |**Installer name**|**Project name**|**NDIS version**|**Operating system**|
+ |-|-|-|-|
+ |tap-windows-9.21.2 |tap-windows6 |6|Windows Vista and above|
+ |tap-windows-9.9.2_3 |tap-windows |5|Windows XP|
- # Fetching tap-windows source code
+ # Fetching tap-windows source code =
- To fetch tap-windows (NDIS 5) use:
+ To fetch tap-windows (NDIS 5) use
```
$ git clone https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows.git
```
- To fetch tap-windows (NDIS 6) use:
+ To fetch tap-windows (NDIS 6) use
```
$ git clone https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6.git
```
- # Getting tap-windows releases
+ # Getting tap-windows releases =
All tap-windows releases are available in a number of places:
- - [http://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/tap-windows-<version>.exe](http://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/tap-windows-<version>.exe)
- - [http://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/tap-windows-<version>.zip](http://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/tap-windows-<version>.zip)
- - [Browseable downloads](http://build.openvpn.net/downloads/releases)
- - [GitHub downloads page](https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows/downloads)
+ * !http://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/tap-windows-<version>.exe
+ * !http://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/tap-windows-<version>.zip
+ * http://build.openvpn.net/downloads/releases (browseable)
+ * [GitHub downloads page](https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows/downloads)
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