Tunnelblick could not find a 'tun' or 'tap option in the OpenVPN configuration file

[ceds...@gmail.com]

everything is in the title :-)

i run the latest version of tunnelblick on mac os El capitan.

when i try to establish the vpn, i get this message "Tunnelblick could not find a 'tun' or 'tap option in the OpenVPN configuration file"


i use the same conf file on iphone and ipad (openvpn client)

how to set up propperly a tun option for tunnelblick

thanks
Cedric

[jkbull...gmail.com]

It's probably a TUN connection; that's the only kind allowed on iPhone/iPad.

So add a line consisting of "dev tun" anywhere in the OpenVPN configuration file.

[Cédric S]

yes it's a tun connection.

openvpn is installed on a VPS



here is my conf file

client

remote x.x.x.x 1194
proto udp
dev tun

float
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
mute-replay-warnings
ca root.crt
cert C1.crt
key C1.key
ns-cert-type server
tls-auth secret.key 1
verify-x509-name Moi name
keepalive 10 60
explicit-exit-notify 2
comp-lzo
verb 2
mute 20
reneg-sec 0
auth-nocache

[Cédric S]

i tried the last stable and the last beta release of tunnelblick
open vpn version is 2.3.10

[Cédric S]

SOLVED



Tunnelblick doesn't like comments in conf file.
i've removed all comments in the conf file and it works

[jkbull...gmail.com]

Comments in configuration files are not usually a problem.

Perhaps the comments included unusual characters which confused Tunnelblick.

Could you edit a copy of the original configuration to remove the remove IP address, then compress that and post the .zip? (The .zip would preserve unusal characters in the comments and I could look into why Tunnelblick failed to deal with it properly.)

Control-click on the file and select "Compress..." to get a .zip of the file.

Thanks.

[kkh...@g8.net]

the "dev tun" command works perfectly fine. Thanx