Options error: --server directive network/netmask combination is invalid

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geetanshu26
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Options error: --server directive network/netmask combination is invalid

Post by geetanshu26 » Mon Jul 25, 2022 7:44 pm

Hi Team
I am doing first time setup of OpenVPN,I am doing setup on AWS ec2 instance

i am using this article:
https://phoenixnap.com/kb/openvpn-centos

I am getting the following error:
Jul 22 03:56:37 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.ec2.internal openvpn[17056]: Options error: --server directive network/netmask combination is invalid
Jul 22 03:56:37 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.ec2.internal openvpn[17056]: Use --help for more information.
Jul 22 03:56:37 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.ec2.internal systemd[1]: openvpn@server.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 22 03:56:37 ip-xx-xx-xx-xx.ec2.internal systemd[1]: Failed to start OpenVPN Robust And Highly Flexible Tunneling Application On server.

Can you please help me

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