Changes between Version 8 and Version 9 of ManagingWindowsTAPDrivers
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- 04/11/13 14:44:57 (11 years ago)
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ManagingWindowsTAPDrivers
v8 v9 20 20 Occasionally you may need play with different TAP-driver versions. In this case you can use ''devcon.exe'' from the Windows command-prompt. Below are some common commands: 21 21 22 To view information about an installed driver use 22 List available TAP-Windows adapters: 23 24 {{{ 25 $ openvpn --show-adapters 26 Available TAP-Windows devices: 27 [1] 'my-tap' 28 }}} 29 30 List network interfaces (incl. TAP-Windows adapters): 31 32 {{{ 33 $ ipconfig 34 }}} 35 36 View information about an installed driver: 23 37 24 38 {{{ … … 26 40 }}} 27 41 28 To uninstall the TAP-driver use:42 Uninstall a TAP-driver: 29 43 30 44 {{{ … … 32 46 }}} 33 47 34 To install a new TAP-driver use 48 Install a new TAP-driver: 35 49 36 50 {{{ … … 38 52 }}} 39 53 40 To update a TAP-driver use 54 Update a TAP-driver: 41 55 42 56 {{{ … … 56 70 Extracting TAP-drivers from an OpenVPN installer is relatively easy: you can use [http://www.7-zip.org/ 7-zip] to open the installer executable. There are both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but the latter are larger in size. 57 71 72 = Windows TAP device naming = 73 74 Basically what happens when you install the TAP-Windows driver is that you get a new network adapter that shows up in your network control panel. You right click on the TAP adapter and set the TCP/IP properties, i.e. IP address and netmask. Then you rename the TAP adapter icon to something like "my-tap" and reference it using the --dev-node option in OpenVPN. 75 76 Windows also has command line utilities to accomplish these same kinds of tasks such as "devcon", "netsh", and "ipconfig". 77 58 78 = Renaming the TAP-driver = 59 79