I tried your suggested settings on fresh installs including all updates but this still regularly fails to bind the address. I have those servers running as virtual machines with Qemu/KVM. If I do the same thing on bare metal, the binding will succeed in like 95% of boots.
/var/log/openvpn.log: Tue Apr 10 11:40:44 2018 OpenVPN 2.3.10 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [IPv6] built on Jun 22 2017 Tue Apr 10 11:40:44 2018 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2g 1 Mar 2016, LZO 2.08 Tue Apr 10 11:40:44 2018 Diffie-Hellman initialized with 2048 bit key Tue Apr 10 11:40:44 2018 Control Channel Authentication: using './easy-rsa/keys/ta.key' as a OpenVPN static key file Tue Apr 10 11:40:44 2018 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication Tue Apr 10 11:40:44 2018 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication Tue Apr 10 11:40:44 2018 Socket Buffers: R=[212992->212992] S=[212992->212992] Tue Apr 10 11:40:44 2018 TCP/UDP: Socket bind failed on local address [AF_INET]192.168.11.254:1194: Cannot assign requested address Tue Apr 10 11:40:44 2018 Exiting due to fatal error -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1689833 Title: OpenVPN server does not start properly on boot To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvpn/+bug/1689833/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
