So I run this vpn software called Hamachi. It's really awesome. Anyway, it requires the tun_tap module. I had it working just fine, no problems. All of a sudden today it is broken on my Linode. Still works just fine everywhere else. I tried to turn it back on, but /dev/net/tun is missing.

Now, if I try to do any module-related activities such as depmod, lsmod, modprobe, etc. it says

What happened?

modules are not "busted." the linodes kernels do not and never have supported modules.



you need to create the /dev/net/tun device file, but you do not need to load any kernel modules. the linode kernel has the TUN/TAP driver statically compiled.



that is normal for a static kernel which does not support modules.