OpenVPN does not work after server restart

[Kulturmensch]

My openvpn installation (V-Server, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Plesk Onyx) works fine exept for a reboot of the server. Then although the vpn between desktop and server works but the server does not any longer accept outgoing traffic.

After having manually used the commands:
1. => net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
and
2. => iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o venet0 -s 10.8.0.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
everything works fine again.

As recommended the first command is set in sysctl,conf and the 2nd one in rc.local. This worked in my old server but it does not work in the new one.

Do you have any solution for this?

[Skaperen]

in these scripts redirect all the output to files you can go read. maybe the output has a clue to what went wrong. before your commands in these scripts put:

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exec 1>/var/`basename $0`.log
exec 2>&1

or

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exec 1>/var/somenamyoucanremember.log
exec 2>&1

reboot and check your results.

[TinCanTech]

1. see /etc/sysctl.conf

2. google "iptables-persist"