<p>Frank, </p>
<p>Not necessarily. You can do ifconfig tun0 up and then you will see the interface listed. </p>
<p>In my case openvpn will automatically bring the interface up when its connected.</p>
<p>Matt</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 18, 2011 2:38 PM, "Frank Parker" <<a href="mailto:mr.frank.parker@gmail.com">mr.frank.parker@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> If I do this:<br>> <br>> voyage:~# modprobe -v tun<br>
> voyage:~# lsmod | grep tun<br>> tun 10816 0<br>> <br>> Shouldn't I see a new tun interface?<br>> <br>> voyage:~# ifconfig -a<br>> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr uu:vv:ww:xx:yy:zz<br>
> inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0<br>> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br>> RX packets:4017 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>
> TX packets:2776 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000<br>> RX bytes:331763 (323.9 KiB) TX bytes:347670 (339.5 KiB)<br>> Interrupt:19 Base address:0x2000<br>
> <br>> lo Link encap:Local Loopback<br>> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0<br>> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host<br>> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1<br>> RX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>
> TX packets:24 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0<br>> RX bytes:1554 (1.5 KiB) TX bytes:1554 (1.5 KiB)<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>
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