I have two hosts that I connect to using VPN. One uses OpenVPN, the other uses Watch Guard's Mobile VPN. I have one TAP-Windows adapter which works for either connection, but I would like to have both connections open concurrently.
How do I install another adapter? OpenVPN's site shows how to install one, but when I try it I get "tapinstall failed".
Windows does it automatically when a Hyper-machine or VPN are created. You can only have one active at a time with TAP d3vic3s. Open up Device Manager and click to show Hidden Devices. Then go to Network adapters. IPv6 does need to be enabled for TAP to work.
https://ugetfix.com/ask/how-to-fix-t...ws-adapter-v9/
I'm curious. I found these notes in the OemWin2k.inf file that was installed with the WatchGuard VPN.
Note to Developers:
;
; If you are bundling the TAP-Win32 driver with your app,
; you should try to rename it in such a way that it will
; not collide with other instances of TAP-Win32 defined
; by other apps. Multiple versions of the TAP-Win32
; driver, each installed by different apps, can coexist
; on the same machine if you follow these guidelines.
; NOTE: these instructions assume you are editing the
; generated OemWin2k.inf file, not the source
; OemWin2k.inf.in file which is preprocessed by winconfig
; and uses macro definitions from settings.in.
I am not a developer, I have no app that that this note might refer to. I am a user, have one TAP adapter and it is used by both OpenVPN and WatchGuard, but only one at a time.
If multiples can exist, I'm hoping by creating a second adapter I can have concurrent connections to separate hosts.
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