Hi, On 01/02/2019 10:35, Daniel Miller via Openvpn-users wrote: > I may open a bug with Ubuntu (my server is on Bionic) but a recent > re-boot after some config changes may have exposed something. This > isn't an OpenVPN bug - rather known OpenVPN behavior that may catch > others so I'm sharing. > > Having installed packages quagga-ospfd & quagga-core I setup some basic > OSPF rules to communicate with my router. After re-booting yesterday I > found that my VPN wouldn't start up. Further investigation found the TUN > devices wasn't being created - and the error was the dreaded "RTNETLINK > answers: File exists". Stopping the ospfd & zebra services then allowed > openvpn to initialize without issue.
Without the rest of the log it may be difficult to really have an understanding of what's going on. But to me this looks mor elike a route conflict rather than a TUN creation issue. It may not matter, but ignoring the real cause may leave you with an unknown problem still idling there. Cheers, -- Antonio Quartulli
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