NEWBIE - VLAN / L2TP / OpenVPN - Not Working?
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I am new to PfSense. Not new to networking etc. I presently run a TP Link Omada System, I work in IT with all the different brands ...... L2 Tech etc.
But PfSense.... it strikes me as a very old platform that probably hasn't seen virtually any updates since Windows 7 days? .... I have questions.
So I set mine up in a Hyper-V setup..... to test for a little bit. Gigabit Fibre Internet. My TP Link pulls around 930mbps without IDS etc on, the PfSense on a realtek gigabit card ran like 530 I think off the top of my head (it was about a week ago I switched back to TPLink). I think I did a driver update on the host and it got it to just above 700Mbps if I recall.
I know realteks are a thing on PfSense, that was the first odd thing. But OK....... VPN. Does L2TP support Windows 11 on PfSense? I could not get it to work for the life of me, I wanted L2TP Encrypted...... same as I run on the TPLink. I went to YouTube and Googled guides for this..... what I found was it just didn't work or encryption wasn't supported? Does it work internally or only externally.......
OpenVPN didn't work, L2TP didn't work and I couldn't get WireGuard to work properly either. If I ran say SoftThink VPN on the HyperV host and port forwarded they worked fine.
Am I missing something? Firewall rules I tried, assigning the adapters.......
It works well for supplying internet........ it's fast, no issues but it needs a polish. I couldn't upgrade from 2.70 to 2.72......... I found a fix for that and then that worked fine. There's a lack of apps like......
I bring this up as my TPLink Omada isn't perfect....... and so I am looking at doing my own thing. Again VLAN also didn't work on PfSense. I run a VLAN just for one of my WIFI's to lackout my smart devices from the network. On my TPLink I just set a port as the VLAN port run that into my POE and then tag my WIFI I need with the VLAN ID etc and presto........ on PfSense...... I tried it with just the lan port......... seemed to suggest it should work, nothing........ then I just added an extra network card and tried to specifically add it with that........ nope.
So I had multiple failures using it........... no L2TP so I couldn't just easily remote on from any PC, use VPN on my iPhone........ then OpenVPN, WireGuard NO GO. They just didn't work at all for me. Then the VLAN thing....... wouldn't work with my Omada WIFI....... I even just tried it direct to another PC with the VLAN ID's etc locked to see if it would dish out the right DHCP for the VLAN............ nothing just didn't work at all........
I wrote to NetGate they said there was a plus version that added qos etc but didn't really say much of anything else.
Anyone want to chime in? And no I don't really wanna hear about how I shouldn't use L2TP etc....... just assistance on if anyone's gotten these things to work etc.
Are there better options then PfSense? ...
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L2TP over IPSec can work: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/recipes/l2tp-ipsec.html
That's a long list of failures.
We'd need to get more info about any one to know more.
