[Solved]Routes not added at system start-up

iiMaXii

Hi!

I have successfully configured OpenVPN to redirect all my internet traffic through a remote server. However I am having trouble with the "redirect-gateway" option. It doesn't add the routes at system start-up, so I manually have to restart OpenVPN everytime to add the routes.

The computer does however connect to the server at system start-up and I am able to ping the server (10.9.8.1). My guess is that the client is set to start too soon, before the kernel has initiated the routing table. I have tried using the "route-delay" with no success.

I am running Debian Wheezy and OpenVPN was installed via apt-get. The startup script was not added by me, but by the apt-get installer.

Here is my config

dev tun
proto udp

remote #paranoia :)
ifconfig 10.9.8.2 10.9.8.1
secret /etc/openvpn/secret.key

cipher AES-256-CBC

keepalive 15 60
comp-lzo

redirect-gateway def1
#route-delay 10

verb 3

maikcat

are you using network manager?

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iiMaXii

I'm sorry that I didn't supply enough information. However I did solve the problem by switching from the init.d script to the gnome network manager and adding a script from here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager#Use_dispatcher_to_connect_to_a_VPN_after_a_network_connection_is_established. Thanks to malkcat for the hint 😉

maikcat

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