• Unknown IPs attempting to connect?

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    @dennis100 ah if your clients can not do it? Then you have a bit of a problem.. But that is something you would want to implement because it keeps noise away from your vpn.. Only authorized clients to actually even start a conversation with your vpn, etc. But I find it hard to believe the viscosity client could not do that.. Its basic openvpn stuff.. Maybe not do tls-crypt, but they should be able to do at min tls-auth edit: so quick google found this, so there might of been a problem with older client, but looks like from that that the viscosity client should for sure support tls-crypt https://www.sparklabs.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2647 Here is tls-auth I found on their site. So clearly they support it, you would just need to set it up https://www.sparklabs.com/support/kb/article/advanced-configuration-commands/#tls-auth Add an additional layer of HMAC authentication on top of the TLS control channel to mitigate DoS attacks and attacks on the TLS stack. In a nutshell, tls-auth enables a kind of "HMAC firewall" on OpenVPN's TCP/UDP port, where TLS control channel packets bearing an incorrect HMAC signature can be dropped immediately without response.
  • How to setup client-to-site VPN through pfSense OpenVPN?

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  • OpenVPN Server and Site-to-site to Azure

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    Thank you so much for responding, @viragomann. It was solved
  • OpenVPN fails with 2.50

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    @johnpoz Ok, so I got this fixed. My older install only had a single Data Encryption Algorithms listed under the client side. The new had a bunch listed by default for some reason. I made the new match the old and this appears to have corrected the issue, as the VPN's are working again. Note that my REMOTE VPN's continued to work, only my PEER-PEER VPN's stopped working. MP
  • OpenVPN on pfSense+ AWS

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    I was able to resolve it. By making Minute Changes on the VPN CLient Profile. remote <Elastic_IP> 1194 udp //Change WAN IP with elastic IP #verify-x509-name "Netgate VPN Server" name //Comment this Line
  • OpenVPN server fails after reboot until restart...

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    @viragomann Looking around and found there is a "reject lease from" option under wan1 interface. I think for some reason when pfsense reboots, upon restarting, it gets the dhcp of 192.168.0.254 from the ATT Modem. I put in "reject lease from" 192.168.0.254... I'll check tonight if this solves the issue. Not sure if the ATT Modem's dhcp is passing out it's own ip address while it's asking upstream ATT server for the actual wan ip address. Maybe someone with ATT can explain why modem's address gets pick up as the wan ip and then later renews to the actual wan ip. Thanks!
  • missing openvpn client password prevents successful boot

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  • Inbound OpenVPN port forward no response

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    @viragomann Thanks from my side as well... I've been struggling with this exact same problem and the firewall rules underneath the OpenVPN tab were the problem for me as well.
  • Outbound pfsense openvpn client traffic thru another vpn gateway

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    @clickerdeveloper From what you described, I assume you have already checked "Redirect gateway" in the OpenVPN server settings and you policy route the LAN traffic to the VPN provider. Hence the VPN gateway might not be your default. So you need also to policy route the OpenVPN clients traffic to the VPN provider. Also you need an outbound NAT rule for the access server VPN tunnel network, if it wasn't added automatically by pfSense.
  • OpenVPN CRL Verification Fails

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    It is likely that your VPN interface isn't enabled in pfSense. Open Interfaces and select the VPN interface that you added to System > Routing > Gateways and click the Enable box. Click Save. Navigate to Status > OpenVPN and restart the service. It should show a green check mark and show local, virtual, and remote host addresses.
  • Missing route for second VPN connection.

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  • Default OpenVPN encryption algorithms

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    @wedwards Seems like pfSense honours the defaults from OpenVPN >= 2.6. From the documentation: In 2.6 and later the default is changed to AES-256-GCM:AES-128-GCM:CHACHA20-POLY1305 when Chacha20-Poly1305 is available.
  • What are options for connecting same user from different computers

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  • pfSense 2.5.2 OpenVPN Server - problems getting DNS working

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    @jewilson I made that change to the client specific override and now OpenVPN Connect is allocating 192.168.2.2 to the client and not 192.168.2.0. Thanks for the help.
  • Site to Site OpenVPN get service stop after two days

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    @rduarteoliveira Thanx for feedback.
  • multicast over OpenVPN (layer 2 / tap)

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  • openvpn connection reset/closed upon another client connecting

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    @viragomann That fixed it, thanks!
  • OpenVPN - Remote Access User Auth still broken in 2.5.2?

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    @bingo600 said in OpenVPN - Remote Access User Auth still broken in 2.5.2?: The Gandalf of pfSense ?? hahah - no unless I missed the ceremony myself? ;) The wizard is just a easy way to get a basic remote access vpn up in running in a few clicks. You can always edit the settings how you see fit after. It will even walk you through creating the CA and certs, etc.. Its a great little tool for someone new to setting up a vpn.. Will create the firewall rule for you, etc.
  • Unable to access IPSec S2S tunnels over OpenVPN

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    @mikespears said in Unable to access IPSec S2S tunnels over OpenVPN: I just deployed an OpenVPN VPN for client devices, I need them to be able to access the IPSec VTI tunnels I assume, the clients will rather need to access the network behind the IPSec VTI tunnels, right? So the response traffic to the OpenVPN clients has to be routed back on the remote sites. If that is no option, you can do masquerading by outbound NAT on pfSense on the concerned traffic. So this has the same effect for the remote sites as running the OpenVPN inside your network. or would it be best if I run the OpenVPN tunnel on a VM in the primary location, instead of using pfSense for this? Best practice is to run the vpn server on the router.
  • additional DNS-name kills service

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    @maxtheitguy so you want to create a host override wild card? You want to resolve anything.core.microsoft.com to same IP? This is how you would do that via unbound https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/services/dns/wildcards.html#creating-wildcard-records-in-dns-forwarder-resolver You can not do that via gui.. if you want file1.somedomain.tld to resolve to 192.168.1.100, and file2.somedomain.tld to 192.168.1.101, you would have to create the records for those, or point the domain to some other NS that would resolve them to what you want.
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