Windows 11 TAP won't come up.So routes and tunnel fail

[jngreene]

Unless my decades of troubleshooting fail me.. The following error seems to be the root of the problem which results in the TUN/Tap device never reaching an up state, the wait timing out and failing route statements (cascading errors) and ultimately failure..

OS/Software data

Server 2.5.9; Fedora 40
Client 2.5.9 with OpenVpn GUI 11.31.0.0; Windows 11 Home 23H2

Most pertinent Errors (Scrubbed full log available upon request).

Set TAP-Windows TUN subnet mode network/local/netmask = 10.69.0.0/10.69.0.1/10.69.0.2 [SUCCEEDED]
Notified TAP-Windows driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 10.69.0.1/10.69.0.2 on interface {875FFDB8-8C40-40B3-96F7-9D602F148D2C} [DHCP-serv: 10.69.0.0, lease-time: 31536000]
DHCP option string: 0f0e6772 65656e65 6d797374 2e636f6d 06080a00 0001d043 dcdc
​

It appears that from somewhere it is getting the idea that with 10.69.0.1/10.69.0.2 is an IP netmask pair instead of a <gateway>/<ip> routing pair.

Client.config is

client
port 1194
dev tun
remote <server hostname>
# TLS parms
ca "<path_to_file>ca.crt"
cert "<path_to_file>CaptainsReadyRoom.crt"
key "<path_to_file>CaptainsReadyRoom.key"
tls-auth "<path_to_file>ta.key" 1
remote-cert-tls server
tls-client
pull
verb 4​

ccd/CaptainsReadyRoom file for the client on the server is:

ifconfig-push 10.69.0.1 10.69.0.2

Uncommented lines of server.conf file is:

cd /etc/openvpn/
local <server_inet_exposed_addess>
port 1194
proto udp
dev tun
ca <path_to_file>ca.crt
cert <path_to_file>server.crt
key <path_to_file>server.key
dh <path_to_file>dh.pem
topology subnet
server 10.69.0.0 255.255.255.0
ifconfig-pool-persist ipp.txt
client-config-dir ccd
route 10.69.0.0 255.255.255.252
push "route <internal subnet1> 255.255.255.0"
push "route <internal subnet2> 255.255.255.0"
push "redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp"
push "dhcp-option DOMAIN greenemyst.com"
push "dhcp-option DNS <internal DNS>"
push "dhcp-option DNS 208.67.220.220"
client-to-client
keepalive 10 120
tls-auth <path_to_file>ta.key 0
data-ciphers AES-256-GCM
max-clients 10
user nobody
group nobody
persist-key
persist-tun
status openvpn-status.log
log-append  openvpn.log
verb 3
explicit-exit-notify 1

Suggestions please?