title: Openvpn linux connection reset, restarting [0]
body: <p>This works perfectly fine under windows but fails on my ubuntu laptop</p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any insight as to why this is?</p>
  
  <p>openvpn output</p>
  
  <pre><code>Thu Dec 31 13:49:42 2015 OpenVPN 2.3.2 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [IPv6] built on Apr 13 2015
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:42 2015 WARNING: file 'tom.key' is group or others accessible
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:42 2015 Socket Buffers: R=[87380-&gt;131072] S=[16384-&gt;131072]
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:42 2015 Attempting to establish TCP connection with [AF_INET]120.136.49.81:47 [nonblock]
  
  .........
  
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 OPTIONS IMPORT: route-related options modified
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 ROUTE_GATEWAY 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=wlan0 HWADDR=88:53:2e:a5:8b:1f
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 TUN/TAP device tap0 opened
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 do_ifconfig, tt-&gt;ipv6=0, tt-&gt;did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 /sbin/ip link set dev tap0 up mtu 1500
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 /sbin/ip addr add dev tap0 10.8.0.61/8 broadcast 10.255.255.255
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 /sbin/ip route add 120.136.49.81/32 via 192.168.1.1
  RTNETLINK answers: File exists
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 2
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 /sbin/ip route add 0.0.0.0/1 via 10.1.4.10
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 /sbin/ip route add 128.0.0.0/1 via 10.1.4.10
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 /sbin/ip route add 10.0.0.0/8 via 10.1.4.10
  RTNETLINK answers: File exists
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 2
  Thu Dec 31 13:49:46 2015 Initialization Sequence Completed
  
  Thu Dec 31 13:50:01 2015 Connection reset, restarting [0]
  Thu Dec 31 13:50:01 2015 SIGUSR1[soft,connection-reset] received, process restarting
  Thu Dec 31 13:50:01 2015 Restart pause, 5 second(s)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>At this point it enters an infinite loop of reconnects and disconnects where the connection is active for about 3 seconds before the disconnect</p>
  
  <p>tom.ovpn contents:</p>
  
  <pre><code>client
  dev tap
  proto tcp
  remote xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 47
  resolv-retry infinite
  nobind
  persist-key
  persist-tun
  ca ca.crt
  cert tom.crt
  key tom.key
  ns-cert-type server
  comp-lzo
  verb 3
  </code></pre>