I'm trying to setup OpenVPN on a Digital Ocean server to provide bridge internet, giving me a different IP address. I can connect fine to the server, however I cannot access the internet when I do. The only external thing I do is ssh into the server, which seems very strange. I've looked through the logs and this seems to be the thing causing the problem. [b]WARNING: --remote address [***.***.***.55] conflicts with --ifconfig subnet [***.***.***.105, 255.255.255.0] -- local and remote addresses cannot be inside of the --ifconfig subnet. (silence this warning with --ifconfig-nowarn) MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1391745575,ASSIGN_IP,,***.***.***.105, /sbin/ifconfig tap0 delete ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address[/b] Any ideas?

Cannot access internet using OpenVPN with ethernet bridge.

DrPotato

I'm trying to setup OpenVPN on a Digital Ocean server to provide bridge internet, giving me a different IP address.

I can connect fine to the server, however I cannot access the internet when I do. The only external thing I do is ssh into the server, which seems very strange.

I've looked through the logs and this seems to be the thing causing the problem.

WARNING: --remote address [***.***.***.55] conflicts with --ifconfig subnet [***.***.***.105, 255.255.255.0] -- local and remote addresses cannot be inside of the --ifconfig subnet. (silence this warning with --ifconfig-nowarn)

MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1391745575,ASSIGN_IP,,***.***.***.105,
/sbin/ifconfig tap0 delete
ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address

Any ideas?

DrPotato

Sorry, here's the server.conf with sanitized ip addresses.

On a side note, I followed this guide: http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/457103-install-and-configure-openvpn-server-on-linux

local ***.***.***.55
port 1194
proto udp
dev tap0
up "/etc/openvpn/up.sh br0 tap0 1500"
down "/etc/openvpn/down.sh br0 tap0"
ca ca.crt
cert YSVPN.crt
key YSVPN.key  # This file should be kept secret
dh dh2048.pem
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
server-bridge ***.***.***.55 255.255.255.0 ***.***.***.100 ***.***.***.200
push "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp"
push "dhcp-option DNS ***.***.***.201"
push "dhcp-option DOMAIN example.com"
keepalive 10 120
comp-lzo
user nobody
group nogroup
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
log         openvpn.log
verb 6

DrPotato

Forgot the client.conf

client
dev tap
proto udp
remote vpn.server.url 1194
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
ca ca.crt
cert client.crt
key client.key
ns-cert-type server
comp-lzo
verb 3