OpenVPN: OpenVPNGUI Routing Problems

OpenVPN: OpenVPNGUI Routing Problems

26.03.2014

Special thanks to Mugurel Sumanariu for the solution!

OpenVPN+GUI (openvpn-2.0.9-gui-1.0.3) in client mode will connect to the remote OpenVPN server, but will not accept the routes. Error in the log is as follows:

ROUTE: route addition failed using CreateIpForwardEntry: One or more arguments are not correct. [if_index=18]
Route addition via IPAPI failed

Solution:

add the following to the end of the configuration (ovpn) file:

route-method exe
route-delay 2