On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 04:29:49PM +0400, fantomtk wrote:

> Currently we have 30 PCs in our research labs, which are flawlessly running 
> tinc 1.1pre3 built from GIT sources with a couple of patches (basically the 
> Windows hang patch) on Windows 8 Pro x64 for near 2 months. So I can assume, 
> that any later pre-built version will run just fine.

That is good to hear. I have updated the website to explicitly mention
Windows 8 as being supported.

> As we can remember, there were only one issue with installing and configuring 
> tinc on Win8 systems - with UAC protection of default install (Program Files) 
> directory, because you may encounter some difficulties when trying to make 
> user configs. Anyway, installing tinc in any other non-UAC protected 
> directory allows it to run without problems.

Is it also a problem when you create and edit the configuration using the 
tincctl utility?

> PS: During our researches, we have tested tinc with its own bundled TAP 
> driver (x64 version), latest TAP driver from the OpenVPN bundle (which is 
> pretty much the same thing), and TAP driver from Tunngle VPN (which is again 
> the same thing, minor version changes aside). All of these are running fine 
> in Win8 x64 environment

That is also good to hear.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <[email protected]>

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