sorry I must of missed somethnig you also have a brcmd bridge ? and tap0 is not being added to this bridge ?
Hi,there seems to be no problem if the bridge is running an openvpn starts as second. But if you stop openvpn, which i did to test something last week, it takes down the tap0 device and unfortunate does not re add the tap0 interface again if you restart.
If you are not running openvpn with a bridged setup the problem never occurs.
Yesterday I found a good solution. The following script and entry in the openvpn server.conf up "/etc/openvpn/up.sh br0 tap0" /etc/openvpn/up.sh ########## #!/bin/sh BR=$1 DEV=$2 /sbin/ifconfig $DEV up /usr/sbin/brctl addif $BR $DEV ########## Somehow i missed that option completely. Bernd