Clarify which Windows versions require which TUN/TAP driver

Signed-off-by: Samuli Seppänen <samuli@openvpn.net>
Acked-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>
Message-Id: <1466665610-19289-1-git-send-email-samuli@openvpn.net>
URL: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.openvpn.devel/11966
Signed-off-by: Gert Doering <gert@greenie.muc.de>

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 42f78d830e4740b84fdf8eb4d885ac9fe839815d..f0965c79b2a950f407a448111a493b87f1446cd7 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -298,13 +298,13 @@ TUN/TAP Driver Configuration:
 
     http://www.whiteboard.ne.jp/~admin2/tuntap/
 
-* Windows XP/2003/Vista/7:
+* Windows
 
   OpenVPN on Windows needs a TUN/TAP kernel driver to work. OpenVPN installers
   include this driver, so installing it separately is not usually required.
-  The driver source code is available here:
-
-    https://github.com/OpenVPN/tap-windows
+  Windows XP/2003 must use the NDIS 5 (tap-windows) driver, whereas on more
+  recent Windows versions it is recommended to use the NDIS 6 driver
+  (tap-windows6) instead.
 
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