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Hello,

i am using openvpn for a while now. First with a windows 2003 r2 and now with a windows 2008 r2 server. Got 2 vpn server running, one with routing and one as a bridge. They start as a service under the local administrator. Windows firewall is running. The routing server creates a route between my vpn net (10.0.0.0) and my lan (192.168.0.0). My hardware router has a route from the lan to the vpn net.

When I restart the 2k8 R2 server, log in to the routing server and try to ping my server on his vpn or lan ip, I get timeouts. To solve this problem I must stop the service and start openvpn with the cmd. Now it works perfect, I can close the vpn window and start openvpn again as service.

Here 2 screens of my routing table:

1. Routing table after server restart, openvpn started as a service (not working)


2. Routing table after server restart, started over cmd (working)


I have this problem for 2-3 weeks now and do not know how to fix it. Did not change anything in my vpn config file or reconfiguered my firewall. I can activate or deactivate it, nothing changes.

Hope someone can help me.

try adding this to the config

Thanks, now it is working as a service after restarting the server.