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openvpn package

  1. Bug #1689833
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1689833

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AW (jnx) wrote :

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