[Guide] Setup a wireguard tunnel to VPN provider (multiple VPN tunnel setup)

[philjoyal]

firts off, Great tutorial!

Now for the issue I have. When the default gateway is set to wireguard tunnel interface, I can't access my LAN. I cam't seem to figure out the firewall rules (assuming it blocks the connection). Not much on the logs either.

Do you have any idea of whats is going on?

[philjoyal]

@philjoyal this is the tutorial I have follow for my lan access.
https://www.wundertech.net/how-to-set-up-wireguard-on-pfsense/

[LaUs3r]

Hi @philjoyal,

fist of all, your scenario is a different one as described here in this tutorial!

this tutorial: pfSense acts as Wireguard CLIENT that connects to the Wireguard SERVER of the VPN provider

your scenarion: pfSense acts as Wireguard SERVER to which you can connect with Wireguard clients (for example, on your smartphone).

In order for your Wireguard clients to be able to access the LAN, you need to define firewall rules to allow traffic from the incoming Wireguard peers (10.200.0.5/24) to your LAN.
In the tutorial you used, the Wireguard interface is called "WG_VPN". You will find in Firewall > Rules the same name. Here you need to allow "WG_VPN subnets" (source) to your LAN (destination).

[philjoyal]

@LaUs3r thank you for your reply. In fact my pfsense should be a client and a server. Client for vpn provider and server for my client to access my lan. My pfsense have 2 wireguard tunnels (on different port and different vinterface): client and server. My clients can connect to my lan (if wan is set as default gateway-->routing) and pfsense can connect as client for my vpn provider (default gateway set to vpn_provider) but not at the same time. my clients cant connect to lan tunnel if pfsense is connected as a client for vpn_provider.

[LaUs3r]

@philjoyal, do you allow NAT Outbound traffic for your Wireguard Client addresses via the Wireguard Gateway?

In Firewall > NAT > outbound you should have something like:

Interface................Source..................NAT Address
WG_VPN............10.200.0.5/24...............WG_VPN

Can you maybe post a picture of your NAT Outbound rules?

[philjoyal]

@LaUs3r here are some screenshos:

[philjoyal]

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[LaUs3r]

You probably need to add a static route for your WireGuard Remote Clients VPN subnet (10.200.0.5) to use the WireGuard ISP VPN (WG_VPN)

[philjoyal]

@LaUs3r

[philjoyal]

@LaUs3r Doesn't seems to work either

[LaUs3r]

@philjoyal but that's not showing a static route. You need to add one in the routing tab.
Check out this guide: https://jarrodstech.net/fix-pfsense-remote-wireguard-vpn-clients-access-to-wireguard-site-to-site-vpn/

[philjoyal]

@LaUs3r the static route is shown in the 3rd screenshot

[Gammon]

I found this guide years ago. This was back before there were any pfsense VPN guides on the internet. The site has since gone down, but is still on the WayBackMachine. There is a brief explanation of the Wireguard MTU and MSS and how they relate to each other.

DevinMadeThat - Guide: Adding Proton VPN with WireGuard to pfSense

Excerpt:

• MTU: 1420
  Maximum Transmission Unit: Because of WireGuard's overhead, you want to set it for 1420
• MSS: 1420
  Maximum Segment Size: You want this clamped to 1380, but it's calculated minus 40 (for 40 bytes of v4 header) from whatever you type here. So you want to enter 1420 (1420-40=1380)

[privatenetworks]

This was a great post to get me started with a dual VPN solution - thanks so much for the write up @LaUs3r . For my use case I desire a wireguard primary interface and a failover wireguard connection if primary goes down or has high latency. I finally got both set up, handshaking and passing traffic.

I'm probably a bit over my head here and did a lot of trial and error to get things going so sorry if stupid question but once thing still isn't working for me correctly. wg0 and wg1 are both passing traffic like a round robin load balance situation - each successive connection alternates which one is being used - but that isn't the behavior I want.

I want to only send traffic to wg1 if wg0 fails (or gets high letency and packet loss). I created a gateway for each and a gateway group. In the gw group I have wg0 as Tier 1 and wg1 as Tier 2 but they seem to be treated equal. I also created an interface group for my NAT rules that contains VPN1(wg0) and VPN2(wg1)

I think I am missing what rules/process steers the traffic to the gateway group and how the NAT works and maybe somehow I'm sending traffic to both gateways ignoring the group tier and priority.

Any ideas where I should look in more detail to figure this out?

TIA