[Openvpn-devel] TAP adapter detection

[Samuli Seppänen]

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 02:25:55PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> Hm, really "tapoas"? Where did that driver come from?
> Looking more closely, I see
>
>         if self.opt.oas:
>             kv['PRODUCT_NAME'] = "OpenVPNAS"
>             kv['PRODUCT_TAP_WIN_DEVICE_DESCRIPTION'] = "TAP-Win32 Adapter OAS (NDIS 6.0)"
>             kv['PRODUCT_TAP_WIN_PROVIDER'] = "TAP-Win32 Provider OAS"
>             kv['PRODUCT_TAP_WIN_COMPONENT_ID'] = "tapoas"
>
> in the tap-windows6 build script...   so I'd assume that there is a 
> commercial OpenVPN client (Connect or PrivateTunnel) on that machine, 
> and it brought the new driver with it.
>
> But that's pure guesswork.
>
> gert
I think you guessed it exactly right. I suspect "tapoas" means "TAP
OpenVPN Access Server", which is understandable as OpenVPN Connect
clients are bundled with the Access Server.

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