upon reconnect, OpenVPN removes routes it did not create

[triffid_hunter]

#412 affects me. My openvpn server apparently pushes redirect-gateway def1, so I cannot test without this option.

Originally I was working around this by adding a /24 route for the ip-range of my VPN servers, however I soon discovered that openvpn would remove it upon reconnect.

This is unfortunate, because if openvpn left user-created routes alone, adding a /24 (or relevant-sized subnet) would be a trivial workaround for #412.

I also found that openvpn will remove routes for specific services that I want to bypass the VPN upon reconnect!

OpenVPN should keep a list of all the changes it's made to the routing table so it can roll them back without affecting other similar rules.

This may also solve #544, which is related but not a duplicate.

(gentoo linux, openvpn 2.3.6)

[Gert Döring]

Normally, OpenVPN is quite good at only removing stuff that it created itself (and it's part of our regression test suite to compare routing table entries before/after an openvpn run to ensure no differences).

Can you show a log file demonstrating the route removal, please, including "ip route show" output before OpenVPN is started and after it ends?

(I'm not claiming it's not happening, I just wonder what constellation triggers this)

[Gert Döring]

As long as I can't see a log file, I cannot do anything about this - so closing for now.

Reopen if you have a log for me.