W7 Cannot Set IP on Network TAP Adapter

[David Woodhouse]

On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 11:22 -0500, Steven Petraglia wrote:
> I ran into this little issue a while back.
> If I install openconnect-gui, it calls OpenVPN to install the TAP Adapter 
> 'Local Area Connection 2'.
> 
> Later when I connect to it, OpenConnect runs "vpnc-script-win.js" which 
> attempts to set the IP Address of the TAP Network Adapter via this command:
>   netsh interface ip set address "Local Area Connection 2" static 
> 135.210.170.183 255.255.0.0
> 
> The problem is, there's a bug in the Microsoft 'netsh' that doesn't handle 
> white space in the Adapter name, causing
> it not to match the name and generate an error "Element Not Found".

Can it really not handle it? Or does it just need to be escaped somehow?

I did try torturing the character set handling by changing my TAP
adapter name to 'TAP♥' but I didn't explicitly try spaces... although I
thought the default did indeed have spaces, as you say, and was working.

-- 
dwmw2
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