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= Introduction =

OpenVPN [wiki:ChangesInOpenvpn23 was split] into several subprojects between 2.3-alpha1 -> 2.3-alpha2 releases. [https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows 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 [https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6 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||

= Fetching tap-windows source code =

To fetch tap-windows (NDIS 5) use

{{{
$ git clone https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows.git
}}}

To fetch tap-windows (NDIS 6) use

{{{
$ git clone https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows6.git
}}}

= 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>.zip
 * http://build.openvpn.net/downloads/releases (browseable)
 * [https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows/downloads GitHub downloads page]