id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 39 Linux gateway detection does not respect flags Samuli Seppänen " In route.c::get_default_gateway, the /proc/net/route file is examined. One of the fields is the ""FLAGS"" field which contiain various status flags about a route. Because OpenVPN does not evaluate the flags field, it may find an invalid gateway entry with (Flags & RTNH_F_DEAD == 0). At least valid with Kernel-2.4, e.g. ""ip r del default"" does not delete the entry from /proc/net/route, instead it's marked dead. May be true with Kernel-2.6 also, e.g. with the ""dead gateway detection"": if 2 gw's with same metric exist, this semi-automatically switches from a dead gw to a functioning one. I presume this is done by marking with Flags, but I haven't checked that." Bug / Defect closed major Networking OpenVPN 2.1.0 / 2.1.1 (Community Ed) Not set (select this one, unless your'e a OpenVPN developer) worksforme gateway linux