Losing Static Routes After Restarting OpenVPN - CENTOS

briank996

Hi All,

I've got an issue that I'm hoping you can help me with...

centos 5.5

I have a couple of Route Add commands in my /etc/rc.local file to route traffic to and from the tunnel. After a system reboot everything works fine but I'm finding after just restarting the OpenVPN service that the added routes are lost and need to be re-added. Any idea on what I can do to keep this from happening?

thanks!

brian

Mimiko

I have a couple of Route Add commands in my /etc/rc.local file to route traffic to and from the tunnel.

Would it be a better to add "route" commands to the OpenVPN config file, so these routes are added when OpenVPN starts? Seems that your custom routes are altered by OpenVPN.

briank996

That seems like a great idea, I didn't know it could be done in the config file. Any idea which attribute would do this?

Mimiko

See OpenVPN documentation for --route.
If you want to route all external traffic, see --redirect-gateway.

maikcat

hi there,

>I have a couple of Route Add commands in my /etc/rc.local

i recommend to avoid adding routes inside rc.local (if you restart networking they gone..)
use a file under /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts named route-ethx and
add the routes inside it...

also post configs to help you out...

Michael.