@johnpoz thanks and understood. The double nat suggestion sounds familiar and I assume it's safe to say that the pfSense features are a superset of whatever the freebie ISP router has (I don't have access to the mfr/model info at the moment) so we shouldn't be losing anything by moving the network to the pfSense unit.

Many thanks!

@erlandghd well let us know how it works.. If you run into trouble, happy to help. But this weekend I prob not going to be around - My youngest son is getting married this weekend ;)

@gasper_gt
In the OpenVPN server settings check "Redirect gateway". This pushes the default route to the clients.

Additionally there is an outbound NAT rule necessary on WAN for the the source of the VPN tunnel network. If it isn't added automatically by pfSense you have to configure it manually.

@mrneutron hmm I have never seen that, but I don't recall an outage of that long in very long time..

Normally the outages here are very short, like 1 hour is really long outage.. We had pretty bad storm last night in the area, lots of people in the area out for really long time (downed trees taking out lines I think) - still out I think for some, but we were lucky my power bounced, it was maybe 10 seconds if that.. Long enough to reset all the clocks etc. But I didn't even hear my upses start beeping that they were off Ac.

Just long enough for all my smart lights to turn on because of the outage.. You know power bounced in my house because all the smart lights turn on when it comes back - hehe.. I have one of my alexas on ups so when it bounces like that I can turn off house without having to wait for all the alexas to reboot ;) And since network and internet are still up when have a power outage can normally still control stuff from the one alexa..

But if you loose internet like that, you should prob just need to reboot your modem and not even worry about rebooting pfsense.

But hope the reject thing helps.. Heres hoping though you don't have to see if works for a long time.. Power outages suck ;)

We did have one long time ago where we were out for 3 some days, but electric company even paid for food we lost in frig, etc.

@viragomann
Thank you!

Went with two servers and now everything is working as expected.

@johnpoz That is interesting. I can go back and look and previously exported files and it doesn't show the ^M characters. It's just recent ones that I've noticed it. Things seem to be working though, so I'll just accept it and move on. Thank you for taking the time to look at it for me.

@anthadeas
You client tries to connect to an IPv6 and an IPv4, each port 1194, but your server is listening only on an IPv4, which is another one then the client tries to connect to.

So what does your client log show? Are these connection attempts to different servers?
If it is the same host name resolving to both, IPv4 and v6 ensure to enable both on the server.
Use the client export utility an export the whole client config and import it again at the client.

Note: for quick step back pfSense stores some config changes, which you can easily go back in Diagnostics > Backup & Restore > Config History.

Thanks to this fantastic forum I was able to solve my problem.
Thanks a lot to everyone and especially to @ viragomann

@viragomann
Thanks very much for your support.

Now I have been able to understand well how nat outbound works and how to set the rules.
The passage to the rule works perfectly through the openvpn and my problem was related to the insertion of the door in the translation part.
The pfsense forum is the place where thanks to very competent people you can find all the solutions.

THANK YOU

@viragomann
The Ubuntu previously a NAT gateway + Virtualbox host + file server + others. Now I replaced the gateway role with pfsense VM. Maybe I can't restore the network setting of the Ubuntu. If so it is out of this forum.
Thank you for your reply.

@viragomann Ok thanks for the help I will try it out. Really appreciate all this info.

Thank you @bingo600 for your help, advice and clear information. I will implement it like you advice and give you a feedback :-)

Thank you