From: Samuli Seppänen Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 07:06:50 +0000 (+0300) Subject: Clarify which Windows versions require which TUN/TAP driver X-Git-Tag: v2.4_alpha1~63 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3f0edd8a5a51774775dcda88064ed99fd0bf51d8;p=thirdparty%2Fopenvpn.git Clarify which Windows versions require which TUN/TAP driver Signed-off-by: Samuli Seppänen Acked-by: Gert Doering 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 --- diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 42f78d830..f0965c79b 100644 --- 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. *************************************************************************