Issues with desired setup

[broncoBrad]

So what I want is this:

I want to VPN from either my desktop at home on the LAN network or a laptop outside of my home networks onto a network which only has one device (slingbox) hardwired to it (so that is the only device on the network).

I have set up openVPN on my desktop and I have successfully connected although I see many errors in the status of the openVPN GUI and I am not able to ping that one device on that network.

Here is the status I am seeing when I log in:

Thu May 03 22:15:34 2012 OpenVPN 2.2.1 Win32-MSVC++ [SSL] [LZO2] built on Jul  1 2011
Thu May 03 22:15:39 2012 WARNING: Make sure you understand the semantics of –tls-remote before using it (see the man page).
Thu May 03 22:15:39 2012 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
Thu May 03 22:15:39 2012 Control Channel Authentication: using 'batcave-udp-2005-tls.key' as a OpenVPN static key file
Thu May 03 22:15:39 2012 LZO compression initialized
Thu May 03 22:15:39 2012 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:1194
Thu May 03 22:15:39 2012 UDPv4 link remote: 173.197.182.82:2005
Thu May 03 22:15:39 2012 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory – use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Thu May 03 22:15:40 2012 [pfSenseSlingboxUser] Peer Connection Initiated with 173.197.182.82:2005
Thu May 03 22:15:43 2012 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 3] opened: \.\Global{C4DD4A68-AADA-4E67-93DF-9AD57A1A22B6}.tap
Thu May 03 22:15:43 2012 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.212.32.6/255.255.255.252 on interface {C4DD4A68-AADA-4E67-93DF-9AD57A1A22B6} [DHCP-serv: 10.212.32.5, lease-time: 31536000]
Thu May 03 22:15:43 2012 Successful ARP Flush on interface [24] {C4DD4A68-AADA-4E67-93DF-9AD57A1A22B6}
Thu May 03 22:15:48 2012 Warning: address 10.212.20.154 is not a network address in relation to netmask 255.255.255.248
Thu May 03 22:15:48 2012 ROUTE: route addition failed using CreateIpForwardEntry: The parameter is incorrect.  [status=87 if_index=24]
The route addition failed: The parameter is incorrect.
Thu May 03 22:15:48 2012 Initialization Sequence Completed

Can someone explain what all of these warnings and notes are??

Thanks in advance!

[marvosa]

Considering the lack of details, all anyone can do is give you their best guess.  So here goes… looking at this line in your log:

Thu May 03 22:15:48 2012 Warning: address 10.212.20.154 is not a network address in relation to netmask 255.255.255.248

I'm guessing you either entered a host address instead of a network address or entered the wrong mask.  Re-visit your server config.