Tunctl openvpn setup

Virtual Private Networks
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Hi there,
i read ipfire doesn’t have the feature to connect to external vpn server which is what I was used to have on previous router.

Before all, maybe someone can explain why it is not suggested to connect to external Server? isn’t it by all mean better than a general connection over http/https?

I gave it a go using ssh access, openvpn --config XXX and all did work until the error msg:

Cannot open TUN/TAP dev /dev/net/tun: No such file or directory (errno=2)

I dig online and found tunctl

Once I have a clearer idean about why not to set a vpn connection to external servers, can someone eventually lead ho to install this package or any similar one with same aim?

Cheers

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Good morning,
regular openvpnctrl should start the daemon and modprobe the tun device → git.ipfire.org Git - ipfire-2.x.git/blob - src/misc-progs/openvpnctrl.c. Did you start the OpenVPn server once ? If no, you can give it a try. If yes, what is the output of
ls -lad /dev/net/tun
?

Best,

Erik

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See the following Blog Post - the section entitled “Avoid VPN providers:”
https://blog.ipfire.org/post/beyond-the-far-side-thoughts-on-secure-and-private-machines-behind-ipfire

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