How to activate TUN/TAP on your Linux VPS

Throughout this tutorial, we will show you how to activate the TUN / TAP feature on your linux VPS.

 
1) You would need to connect to your Linux VPS control panel that you received from your email.
 
 
Your usersame should be vmuser (with a number that you should have received in your welcome email) and the password you have defined upon sign up. 

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2) Once logged in, you should see the list of all your linux VPS and you would need to click on manage as shown in the picture below :
 

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3) You are now on your VPS control area and at the bottom you should select Settings and then click on enable TUN / TAP as shown in the picture below :
 
 
4) To check if the TUN / TAP feature has been successfully activated, you can open a SSH session with putty using your root logins and type the following command : 
 
cat /dev/net/tun
 
Which should return : 
 
cat: /dev/net/tun: File descriptor in bad state 
 
If it isn't properly activated you would have the following error : 
 
 cat: /dev/net/tun: No such device   
 
And you should try to activate it back again or open a support ticket for us to do it for you. 

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