openvpn client connection issue

Following the copious examples, I am trying to setup an openvpn client on 15.04 and when I try to import the client.ovpn file I get the same gateway name entered a bunch of times and none of the cert information filled out.

When I fill out the details manually it just tries really hard and eventually fails.

When I try to connect from the shell, everything seems to go fine but no traffic goes through the tunnel even though tun0 exists.

Because the whole office uses a VPC, not having this feature means I can't use ubuntu for work. It would be nice to have the VPN established on our router for the office, but until then, this is all we have.

root@christian:~# openvpn --client --config client.ovpn
Tue Mar 1 11:19:11 2016 OpenVPN 2.3.2 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [eurephia] [MH] [IPv6] built on Apr 13 2015
Enter Auth Username: *********
Enter Auth Password: *********
Tue Mar 1 11:19:16 2016 Control Channel Authentication: tls-auth using INLINE static key file
Tue Mar 1 11:19:16 2016 Outgoing Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Tue Mar 1 11:19:16 2016 Incoming Control Channel Authentication: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Tue Mar 1 11:19:16 2016 Socket Buffers: R=[212992->200000] S=[212992->200000]
Tue Mar 1 11:19:16 2016 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Tue Mar 1 11:19:16 2016 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]52.25.249.104:1194
Tue Mar 1 11:19:16 2016 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]52.25.249.104:1194, sid=140c4d57 ee7ea275
Tue Mar 1 11:19:16 2016 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Tue Mar 1 11:19:18 2016 VERIFY OK: depth=1, CN=OpenVPN CA
Tue Mar 1 11:19:18 2016 VERIFY OK: nsCertType=SERVER
Tue Mar 1 11:19:18 2016 VERIFY OK: depth=0, CN=OpenVPN Server
Tue Mar 1 11:19:19 2016 Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'BF-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key
Tue Mar 1 11:19:19 2016 Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Tue Mar 1 11:19:19 2016 Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'BF-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key
Tue Mar 1 11:19:19 2016 Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Tue Mar 1 11:19:19 2016 Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 2048 bit RSA
Tue Mar 1 11:19:19 2016 [OpenVPN Server] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]52.25.249.104:1194
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 SENT CONTROL [OpenVPN Server]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1)
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,explicit-exit-notify,topology subnet,route-delay 5 30,dhcp-pre-release,dhcp-renew,dhcp-release,route-metric 101,ping 12,ping-restart 50,auth-token SESS_ID,comp-lzo yes,redirect-private def1,redirect-private bypass-dhcp,redirect-private autolocal,route-gateway 172.27.248.1,route 172.27.224.0 255.255.240.0,route 10.0.0.0 255.254.0.0,dhcp-option DNS 10.0.0.2,register-dns,block-ipv6,ifconfig 172.27.248.54 255.255.248.0'
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:4: dhcp-pre-release (2.3.2)
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:5: dhcp-renew (2.3.2)
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:6: dhcp-release (2.3.2)
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:19: register-dns (2.3.2)
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:20: block-ipv6 (2.3.2)
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 OPTIONS IMPORT: explicit notify parm(s) modified
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 OPTIONS IMPORT: LZO parms modified
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 OPTIONS IMPORT: route-related options modified
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 ROUTE_GATEWAY 192.168.1.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=wlan0 HWADDR=10:02:b5:82:e5:d8
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500
Tue Mar 1 11:19:21 2016 /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 172.27.248.54/21 broadcast 172.27.255.255
Tue Mar 1 11:19:27 2016 ROUTE remote_host is NOT LOCAL
Tue Mar 1 11:19:27 2016 /sbin/ip route add 52.25.249.104/32 via 192.168.1.1
Tue Mar 1 11:19:27 2016 /sbin/ip route add 172.27.224.0/20 via 172.27.248.1 metric 101
Tue Mar 1 11:19:27 2016 /sbin/ip route add 10.0.0.0/15 via 172.27.248.1 metric 101
Tue Mar 1 11:19:27 2016 Initialization Sequence Completed

root@christian:~# ifconfig tun0
tun0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
          inet addr:172.27.248.54 P-t-P:172.27.248.54 Mask:255.255.248.0
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

root@christian:~#