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| 3deb07 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-24 12:28:07 | 1 | # Introduction |
| 9d23f0 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-11 08:16:02 | 2 | |
| 3deb07 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-24 12:28:07 | 3 | 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: |
| 9d23f0 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-11 08:16:02 | 4 | |
| 3deb07 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-24 12:28:07 | 5 | |**Installer name**|**Project name**|**NDIS version**|**Operating system**| |
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| 7 | |tap-windows-9.21.2 |tap-windows6 |6|Windows Vista and above| |
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| 8 | |tap-windows-9.9.2_3 |tap-windows |5|Windows XP| |
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| 9d23f0 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-11 08:16:02 | 9 | |
| de5ad5 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-24 12:32:19 | 10 | # Fetching tap-windows source code |
| 9d23f0 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-11 08:16:02 | 11 | |
| 3deb07 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-24 12:28:07 | 12 | To fetch tap-windows (NDIS 5) use |
| 9d23f0 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-11 08:16:02 | 13 | |
| 14 | ``` |
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| 15 | $ git clone https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows.git |
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| 16 | ``` |
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| 3deb07 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-24 12:28:07 | 18 | To fetch tap-windows (NDIS 6) use |
| 9d23f0 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-11 08:16:02 | 19 | |
| 20 | ``` |
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| 21 | $ git clone https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6.git |
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| 22 | ``` |
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| de5ad5 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-24 12:32:19 | 24 | # Getting tap-windows releases |
| 9d23f0 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-11 08:16:02 | 25 | |
| 26 | All tap-windows releases are available in a number of places: |
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| de5ad5 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-24 12:32:19 | 28 | * http://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/tap-windows-<version\>.exe |
| 29 | * http://swupdate.openvpn.net/community/releases/tap-windows-<version\>.zip |
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| 3deb07 | Samuli Seppänen | 2025-02-24 12:28:07 | 30 | * http://build.openvpn.net/downloads/releases (browseable) |
| 31 | * [GitHub downloads page](https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows/downloads) |