Hi, I sincerely hope that someone can help to sort this as I cannot make head or tail of it and getting a bit exasperated :x client connecting fine to server (2.4.6) tap but the routing is apparently not working. Having set on the server side [code]route-gateway dhcp[/code] this shows in the logs when starting the server [quote]ROUTE_GATEWAY 172.25.120.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=br0 HWADDR=00:16:3e:69:97:82 OpenVPN ROUTE: OpenVPN needs a gateway parameter for a --route option and no default was specified by either --route-gateway or --ifconfig options OpenVPN ROUTE: failed to parse/resolve route for host/network: 172.25.120.0 TUN/TAP device tap0 opened UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]172.25.120.2:61023 Initialization Sequence Completed[/quote] The gateway parameter is set in the conf and apparently ROUTE_GATEWAY is know and yet still openvpn is not adding to the routing table, latter reading: [quote]default via 172.25.120.1 dev br0 metric 3 172.25.120.0/24 dev br0 proto kernel scope link src 172.25.120.2[/quote] and openvpn is suppose to add [code]172.25.120.0/24 via 172.25.120.1 dev br0[/code] Does openvpn not undestand [code]ROUTE_GATEWAY[/code] and requires instead [code]net_gateway (-- The pre-existing IP default gateway, read from the routing table)[/code] And if that is the case is there a way to make openvpn understand net_gateway = ROUTE_GATEWAY? On the other hand shouldn't vpn_gateway (-- The remote VPN endpoint address (derived either from --route-gateway)) do exacly that with [code]route-gateway dhcp[/code]?

tap routing not working - OpenVPN needs a gateway parameter

Anonymous

Hi,

I sincerely hope that someone can help to sort this as I cannot make head or tail of it and getting a bit exasperated :x

client connecting fine to server (2.4.6) tap but the routing is apparently not working. Having set on the server side

route-gateway dhcp

this shows in the logs when starting the server

ROUTE_GATEWAY 172.25.120.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=br0 HWADDR=00:16:3e:69:97:82
OpenVPN ROUTE: OpenVPN needs a gateway parameter for a --route option and no default was specified by either --route-gateway or --ifconfig options
OpenVPN ROUTE: failed to parse/resolve route for host/network: 172.25.120.0
TUN/TAP device tap0 opened
UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]172.25.120.2:61023
Initialization Sequence Completed

The gateway parameter is set in the conf and apparently ROUTE_GATEWAY is know and yet still openvpn is not adding to the routing table, latter reading:

default via 172.25.120.1 dev br0 metric 3
172.25.120.0/24 dev br0 proto kernel scope link src 172.25.120.2

and openvpn is suppose to add

172.25.120.0/24 via 172.25.120.1 dev br0

Does openvpn not undestand

ROUTE_GATEWAY

and requires instead

net_gateway (-- The pre-existing IP default gateway, read from the routing table)

And if that is the case is there a way to make openvpn understand net_gateway = ROUTE_GATEWAY?

On the other hand shouldn't vpn_gateway (-- The remote VPN endpoint address (derived either from --route-gateway)) do exacly that with

route-gateway dhcp