[Openvpn-users] Please Help - Can't get Openvpn server to start with my config!!

[Errol S. <esa...@go...>]

Hello All,
I am having a strange problem with OpenVPN and that is I can't get the
server to start with my config file.  I am including as much
information as possible below with the hope that someone will point me
in the right direction since I am not getting much information by
googling.

Let me explain what I have done so far:

1. Downloaded and installed the most recent kernel from kernel.org so
I am now running CentOS 5.2 with Linux kernel version 2.6.28

2. Downloaded Openvpn 2.1_rc9 and rebuilt rpm so I am running OpenVPN
2.1_rc9 i686-redhat-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] built on Jan 1
2009.  I also have LZO-2.02 installed.

3. I did a loopback server and client test and that worked fine.

4. ********************* myserver.conf ******************

port 1194
proto udp
dev tun0
ca keys/house/ca.crt
cert keys/house/myh-cert.crt
key keys/house/myh-cert.key
dh keys/house/dh2048.pem
server 172.16.8.0 255.255.255.0
crl-verify keys/house/crl.pem
ifconfig-pool-persist servers/myserver/logs/ipp.txt
cipher BF-CBC
user nobody
group nobody
status servers/myserver/logs/openvpn-status.log
log-append servers/myserver/logs/openvpn.log
verb 4
mute 20
max-clients 100
management 127.0.0.1 1195
keepalive 10 60
client-config-dir /etc/openvpn/servers/myserver/ccd
comp-lzo
persist-key
persist-tun
float
ccd-exclusive
push "route 172.16.8.1 255.255.255.0"
push "dhcp-option DNS 172.16.8.1"
push "redirect-gateway def1"

********** End myserver.conf ***************

5. ****************Logfile *****************

Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227524 Current Parameter Settings:
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227643   config = 'myserver.conf'
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227662   mode = 1
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227678   persist_config = DISABLED
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227694   persist_mode = 1
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227709   show_ciphers = DISABLED
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227723   show_digests = DISABLED
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227738   show_engines = DISABLED
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227752   genkey = DISABLED
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227767   key_pass_file = '[UNDEF]'
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227782   show_tls_ciphers = DISABLED
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227801 Connection profiles [default]:
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227818   proto = udp
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227834   local = '[UNDEF]'
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227849   local_port = 1194
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227863   remote = '[UNDEF]'
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227878   remote_port = 1194
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227893   remote_float = ENABLED
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227907   bind_defined = DISABLED
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227922   bind_local = ENABLED
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227936 NOTE: --mute triggered...
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227964 185 variation(s) on previous 20
message(s) suppressed by --mute
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=227983 OpenVPN 2.1_rc9
i686-redhat-linux-gnu [SSL] [LZO2] [EPOLL] built on Jan  1 2009
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=228070 MANAGEMENT: TCP Socket listening on
127.0.0.1:1195
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=278122 Diffie-Hellman initialized with 2048 bit key
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=278449 WARNING: file
'keys/house/etm-cert.key' is group or others accessible
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=278933 TLS-Auth MTU parms [ L:1542 D:138
EF:38 EB:0 ET:0 EL:0 ]
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=279423 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=279454 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=279493 /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=280608 /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 local
172.16.8.1 peer 172.16.8.2
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=281629 /sbin/ip route add 172.16.8.0/24
via 172.16.8.2
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=283134 Data Channel MTU parms [ L:1542
D:1450 EF:42 EB:135 ET:0 EL:0 AF:3/1 ]
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=283922 GID set to nobody
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=283995 UID set to nobody
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=284037 Socket Buffers: R=[109568->131072]
S=[109568->131072]
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=284067 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:1194
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=284088 UDPv4 link remote: [undef]
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=284119 MULTI: multi_init called, r=256 v=256
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=284191 IFCONFIG POOL: base=172.16.8.4 size=62
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=284226 IFCONFIG POOL LIST
Fri Jan  2 11:29:40 2009 us=284267 Initialization Sequence Completed

********************End log *************************
6. In /var/log/messages I am seeing "kernel: tun0: Disabled Privacy Extensions"

Thanks in Advance

Errol