Posts Tagged ‘openvpn’

March 8, 2010 0

OpenVPN packet drops

By Tuinslak in Errors, Linux, Networking, Software

I recently started to notice following error messages on my openVPN server. ovpn-server[6306]: vpn.rootspirit.com/85.234.x.y:62068 MULTI: packet dropped due to output saturation (multi_process_incoming_tun) This basically means that the TUN or TAP interface is making more packets than the real (TCP) interface can handle. As I need to run OpenVPN using the TCP protocol (instead of the [...]

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February 14, 2010 2

OpenVPN & Windows 7

By Tuinslak in Errors, Networking, Software, Windows

There’s a great GUI out for OpenVPN & Windows, located here. However, this GUI includes an old OpenVPN, that is no longer compatible with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The TUN/TAP driver will be blocked due to compatibility issues, and when trying to connect to a VPN, you’ll get an error along the lines of: [...]

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July 5, 2009 1

OpenVPN Linux + Mac howto

By Tuinslak in Linux, Mac, Networking

A short howto, as I was unable to find any clear ones on the net. I’m using Mac OS X (Leopard) as client, and a Gentoo server as server/host. I both tried Viscosity and Tunnelblick on my Mac as OpenVPN software, and Viscosity is probably somewhat easier to configure (using the GUI), it was shareware. [...]

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