ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists

giacota

Hi,
I've an issue when connecting from an OpenVPN client towards my Server. During, the connection I get the following error:

Mon Jul 29 16:51:44 2019 Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in /etc/openvpn/client.ovpn:14: block-outside-dns (2.3.6)
Mon Jul 29 16:51:44 2019 OpenVPN 2.3.6 mipsel-oe-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [MH] [IPv6] built on Dec 1 2016
Mon Jul 29 16:51:44 2019 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2a 19 Mar 2015, LZO 2.09
..
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0,redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp,dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.254,route-gateway 10.8.0.1,topology subnet,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 10.8.0.6 255.255.255.0'
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: route-related options modified
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 ROUTE_GATEWAY 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=wlan0 HWADDR=c0:4a:00:15:47:af
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500
Mon Jul 29 16:51:48 2019 /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 10.8.0.6/24 broadcast 10.8.0.255
Mon Jul 29 16:51:49 2019 /sbin/ip route add SERVER_IP/32 via 192.168.1.1
Mon Jul 29 16:51:49 2019 /sbin/ip route add 0.0.0.0/1 via 10.8.0.1
Mon Jul 29 16:51:49 2019 /sbin/ip route add 128.0.0.0/1 via 10.8.0.1
Mon Jul 29 16:51:49 2019 /sbin/ip route add 192.168.1.0/24 via 10.8.0.1
ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Mon Jul 29 16:51:49 2019 ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 2
Mon Jul 29 16:51:49 2019 Initialization Sequence Completed

Here, the connection with the server is done but I'm not able to ping the remote devices that are in the 192.168.1.X subnet.
Client configuration is:

client
dev tun
proto udp
sndbuf 0
rcvbuf 0
remote SERVER_IP SERVER_PORT
resolv-retry infinite
nobind
persist-key
persist-tun
remote-cert-tls server
auth SHA512
cipher AES-256-CBC
setenv opt block-outside-dns
key-direction 1
verb 3
<ca>
-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
...

And server configuration is:

port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
sndbuf 0
rcvbuf 0
ca ca.crt
cert server.crt
key server.key
dh dh.pem
auth SHA512
tls-auth ta.key 0
topology subnet
server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
push "route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0"
push "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp"
push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.254"
keepalive 10 120
cipher AES-256-CBC
user nobody
group nogroup
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
verb 3
crl-verify crl.pem
duplicate-cn

Where I make the mistake?
Thanks for your help

TinCanTech

NOTE: your local LAN uses the extremely common subnet address 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x. Be aware that this might create routing conflicts if you connect to the VPN server from public locations such as internet cafes that use the same subnet.

So change them for a start.

giacota

Ok,
however I noticed that this is the only client that gives me the error and I cannot ping the remote devices on VPN, instead with other clients that settings works. Can be an issue due to the local DNS?