Re: [Openvpn-users] problem configuring openvpn

[James Yonan <jim@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Matt Singerman wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am setting up a fresh install of OpenVPN 2.0.5 on a FreeBSD 6.0.  I
> was able to install it from the FreeBSD ports collection with no
> problems, and per the instructions from the OpenVPN website, I then
> copied it to another directory (in this case, /usr/local/etc/openvpn).
>  I followed the additional configuration steps listed in the openvpn
> howto, including generating certificates for the server and clients,
> with no problems.  I then copied over the server.conf example script
> and tweaked it a bit, but not too much, so I could hopefully make sure
> it worked all right before I did any major changes.  However, when I
> try to start up openvpn in (as the howto recommends, I am right now
> trying it simply as "openvpn server.conf"), I get the following error:
> 
> # openvpn server.conf
> Options error: --server directive network/netmask combination is invalid
> Use --help for more information.
> 
> The network/netmask section of my server.conf file is set to the
> default settings:
> 
> server 10.8.0.1 255.255.255.0

You need to say:

  server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0

The first parameter is a network address, not an IP address.

James


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