cannnot get internet access through pfsense after 3 years of no trouble
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This is nothing to do with the VPN.
First try to connect directly to the LAN port, not via wifi.
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Thanks Stephen no joy unless its something different to typing in 192.168.1.1 in a browser?
Ive plugged in an enthernet cable from the lan port on the firewall to my laptops network port.
Sorry for being such a beginner with all this and i really appreciate you bearing with me!
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It may not be at that address, it depends what you have the LAN interface configured to be.
That also relies on your laptop having an address in the same subnet. Is it receiving an address from pfSense via DHCP?
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to be honest with you ive not much knowledge in this area, i was using a config file to just input my vpn details into it. Like i say it was working perfectly until 4 days ago.
Can you recommend a book to read about all this as i am feling pretty lost with it all.
I feel like i need to learn this from the ground up and at least get some basic understanding with it all.
In the meantime maybe i should just reset the vault to factory settings and download the config file? What do you think?
One thing i did notice when the firewall is cycling through the setup screen with just kyboard and monitor connected is that it is asking for my ovpn password, i will try and put something in there that matches the last details i put in before it crashed.
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@shdjshdjshd said in cannnot get internet access through pfsense after 3 years of no trouble:
that it is asking for my ovpn password,
Ah, that is almost certainly because you created an OpenVPN client config that requires a password and didn't enter one. It should still continue to boot once you enter a password there though.
I assume it did since you're able to reach the console menu which is only shown when bootup completes.
From the console menu you can try using option 15 to roll back the config. List the configs to see if you have one from a suitable date.
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Thanks I have restored the earliest one i could find before it crashed.
I just need to work out now howto access the control panel on the firewall , struggling to work it out with the ethernet cable option
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Well if DHCP as enabled on LAN and your laptop is configured to use DHCP then it should just pull a lease in the correct subnet. That is the normal setup and what I would expect you had it set to.
It's also possible the wifi access point was running the dhcp server so you might try through that again.
I would make sure your laptop is setup for dhcp first though.
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ok i seem to be back in the gui for some reason through the ethernet cable. It seems to have liked it when the firewall was switched into the menu first before attching the cable to my laptop, can now be opened via password on web browser.
I can see i have two vpn clients, maybe that was where the conflict was but i was having no internet before i added the second client.
Any idea how to proceed from here?
on the open vpn client instance statistics page it says
Reconnecting (Could Not Determine Ipv4/ipv6 Protocol)
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Hmm, there are a whole bunch of things that could be an issue if you're policy routing traffic via OpenVPN.
How did you set it up originally? Did you follow a guide?
The first thing to do here is find the missing password and either enter it in the OpenVPN client config or disable that client.
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Hi yes its through a intel techniques ( a privacy website ) firewall config file and user guide. I have reinstalled that tonight and can now access 192.168.1.1 wirelessly from my laptop, it doesnt appear to be as seemless as before though.
I have some new ethernet cables on order as in theory everything should work now. I need to plug the firewall into my isp router.
I have re setup my access point and i am connected to that .
Once i use my new cable to my ISP router into the firewalls wan port it "should" work, will report back once those cables arrive.
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Hi Stephen just wanted to say thanks so much for all your help in this.
I think the thing i got wrong was the server name in pfsense was changed by the vpn provider unawares to me.
New cable arrived today seems to have helped connect to the wan. I disabled all dhcp in my isp router also.
I guess they changed the catch all address i was using to connect to the fastest server and i am now choosing a specific ip address from inside my pf sense console.
Really great software this and i am thankful for not just connecting the vpn app every time again.
Thanks again man
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No worries, glad you were able to get back up and running.
