severity 402191 important
thanks

* Andreas Barth ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [061208 12:00]:
> hercules tries to setup tun device by itself. However, since 2.6.18,
> this change has happend in the kernel:
>      [NET]: Require CAP_NET_ADMIN to create tuntap devices.
>      Date:   Thu Jun 22 16:07:52 2006 -0700
> 
> The "usual" way to deal with this would be to use tunctl to add an
> device, and tell hercules to use this device. However, this is not
> supported (at least AFAICS).

Other people, e.g. Frans Pop have reported to use hercules successfully
with 2.6.18, so I assume that this is "just" a local configuration
error. Downgrading to important for now.


Cheers,
Andi
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