NetGear R8000 openvpn warnings can't solve

[cbc7]

Hi,
I can connect to Negear R8000 with Openvpn 2.5.2 but receive 2 warnings that I can't seem to shake. Tried adding and removing different lines/commands to the config.ovpn file with no success. Can't seem to find a solution. I have latest router firmware, but maybe Netgear needs to release new firmware?
Any thoughts?

1.)WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled. See "http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm" for more info.

2.) ROUTE: route addition failed using service: The parameter is incorrect. [status=87 if_index=36]

client

dev tap

proto tcp

dev-node NETGEAR-VPN

remote ip.address 12974

resolv-retry infinite

nobind

persist-key

persist-tun

ca ca.crt

cert client.crt

key client.key

cipher AES-128-CBC

comp-lzo

verb 5

mssfix 1430

auth-nocache

route-gateway 192.168.1.1