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    @Bambos said in HEADS UP: OpenVPN deprecating shared key mode, requires TLS, deprecating cipher selection:

    for the remote access VPN, if is SSL/TLS + User auth, does this working with freeradius as well ?

    I'm using FreeRadius myself for the captive portal.
    Never tried to do this ... 😊

    You probably want also see this one also : FreeRadius on pfSense software for Two Factor Authentication although I presume that article was written for those who wanted to "why do things the easy way if much harder is so much better ?"

    @Bambos said in HEADS UP: OpenVPN deprecating shared key mode, requires TLS, deprecating cipher selection:

    i have many 2.6 versions clients to upgrade

    Keep in mind that 2.6.0 uses the "old" (now completly ditched because of security) OpenVPN (and now also old OpenSSL !!) libaries.
    The recent pfSense uses the more modern OpenVPN and OpenSSL.

    All this means that some options won't work anymore.
    Some more options will work, but will be depreciated soon (as usual).
    I Use OpenVPN myself, so I always have a look at the "source" : web pages like this and the classic openvpn support forum.

    The OpenVPN client also changed to support the newer OpenVPN server.

    And yes, I agree, syncing the entire openvpn user fleet can be a hassle.

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    I have discovered that OpenVPN implementation in PFsense is slow even without ciphering data, look at my post:
    link text

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  • Portforword through a VPN client

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    @Udbytossen said in Portforword through a VPN client:

    VPN Internal Subnet 192.168.200.0/27
    Torguard - My incomming DHCP

    Can you explain the meaning of the Torguard interface in your setup?
    "Incoming DHCP"?

    As I understood your post, you want to give an connected OpenVPN client access to a local service running in the LAN?

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  • Openvpn Failover

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    @rajukarthik As I'm sure you've found, you can bind the OpenVPN to both WAN interfaces, so that's the first part.

    After that, I can think of a couple of ways to sort out incoming clients.

    Quick and dirty - publish 2 A records for vpn.mycompany.com with the respective WAN IPs in each. The downside is that there's no real way to have the clients 'prefer' one WAN over the other (so not great if you have a fast leased line primary and DSL backup, for instance) and that if you have a failure it'll take a while for clients to sort themselves out and use the other IP.

    Use DDNS - sign up a DDNS address to use for VPN. You should be able to configure configure PFsense to update it with the 'main' WAN when that is in use and then drop back to the backup if you loose your connection. I'm sure there are guides about on this.

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  • Duck dns hostname and pfsense issue

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    Has anyone found a solution to this?

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    @johnpoz
    Hey so I actually got this working via OpenVPN for my LAN network on the first try...every device in 192.168.1.0/24 now has the VPN provider's public IP. However, the remote access device connected through my OpenVPN Server (tunnel network 192.168.6.0/24) still has my local IP, even when I add equivalent NAT and firewall rules. What do I need to adjust to also send the remote access device through the VPN client? Do I just assign it an IP on the LAN network range instead?

  • pfSense 2.4.5->2.6.0 OpenVPN: "no route to host"

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    @SteveITS said in pfSense 2.4.5->2.6.0 OpenVPN: "no route to host":

    @bartgrefte
    Library errors can mean the wrong version of things was installed. Specifically how did you choose update branches etc? Did you try to update or install a package after? (See my sig)

    If starting back far enough Netgate usually recommends just installing new and restoring the config file.

    I chose the branch on System->Update -> System Update ( pfSenseIP/pkg_mgr_install.php?id=firmware ), this after the update to 2.7.0 didn't start, then thought it might be better to go to 2.6.0 first which I selected on that page.

    Couldn't do anything after the update because due to the down connection with PIA-VPN, there was no internet access in pfSense. I'd have to find the tutorial about the "kill switch" firewall rules to see how that works, been so long I set this up I've forgotten how...

    The library issue aside, did anything significant change between 2.4.5 and 2.6.0 that could influence OpenVPN connections? Other than the "no route to host" (and library issue with the proxy server) I've got nothing to go on, setting up the connection with PIA seems to go without any authentication or certificate errors, just the "no route to host"-error.

    edit: @SteveITS Just checked pfSenseIP/diag_routes.php and compared the working and not working install. There are no routes related to ovpnc1 on the not working install. Seems there's no route being created upon connecting to PIA.

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  • Site-to-Site ovpn setup has limited connectivity

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    SOLVED: This is possibly a bug. In the client specific overrides, the IPV4 Remote Newtork setting doesn't have the desired effect. When I removed that setting and added iroute 10.20.120.0 255.255.255.0 to advanced settings, it began working bidirectionally, between all nodes.

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  • Can not establish connection to OPENVPN server

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    @abonent1978

    If the only VPN config present contains :

    remote 171.x.x.x 1199

    Then where does "92.113.146.1:1194" come from ?

    What / who is the client VPN ?

  • Slow VPN speed on OpenVPN through PFSense

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    Several things will affect performance. VPN will always be slower due to the encryption-decryption processes.

    What else is the VM host doing ? Have you tried other encrytpion algorythms ? What CPU is the client using ? Perhaps run PfSense on it's own hardware ?
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    @IT-META
    I guess, your "TLS Key Usage Mode" is wrong.
    You can either configure it for authentication only or auth + control channel encryption.

    Check your server settings and configure the client accordingly.

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    I found an error in the RADIUS server setup that has fixed this issue.

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    @patient0 Thanks much, I'll check it out!

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