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      Beach
      last edited by

      Ifconfig (for the moment when it works):
      tun0: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>mtu 1500
      inet6 fe80::215:17ff:fe62:a3e4%tun0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xb
      inet xxx.xxx.x5x.1 –> xxx.xxx.x5x.2 netmask 0xffffffff
      Opened by PID 418
      tun1: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>mtu 1500
      inet6 fe80::215:17ff:fe62:a3e4%tun1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xc
      inet xxx.xxx.x6x.1 --> xxx.xxx.x6x.2 netmask 0xffffffff
      Opened by PID 431

      OpemVPN log
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[431]: Initialization Sequence Completed
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[431]: TCPv4_SERVER link remote: [undef]
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[431]: TCPv4_SERVER link local (bound): [undef]:1195
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[431]: Listening for incoming TCP connection on [undef]:1195
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[418]: Initialization Sequence Completed
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[418]: TCPv4_SERVER link remote: [undef]
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[418]: TCPv4_SERVER link local (bound): [undef]:1194
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[418]: Listening for incoming TCP connection on [undef]:1194
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[431]: /etc/rc.filter_configure tun1 1500 1544 xxx.xxx.x6x.1 xxx.xxx.x6x.2 init
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[431]: /sbin/ifconfig tun1 xxx.xxx.x6x.1 xxx.xxx.x6x.2 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[431]: TUN/TAP device /dev/tun1 opened
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[431]: gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[431]: WARNING: file '/var/etc/openvpn_server1.key' is group or others accessible
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[418]: /etc/rc.filter_configure tun0 1500 1544 xxx.xxx.x5x.1 xxx.xxx.x5x.2 init
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[418]: /sbin/ifconfig tun0 xxx.xxx.x5x.1 xxx.xxx.x5x.2 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[418]: TUN/TAP device /dev/tun0 opened
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[418]: gw xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
      Aug 21 10:22:56 openvpn[418]: WARNING: file '/var/etc/openvpn_server0.key' is group or others accessible
      Aug 21 10:22:55 openvpn[431]: OpenVPN 2.0.6 i386-portbld-freebsd6.2 [SSL] [LZO] built on Sep 13 2007
      Aug 21 10:22:55 openvpn[431]: SIGHUP[hard,] received, process restarting

      Thanks in advance

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        kpa
        last edited by

        You're using the same network for local network and address pool, that is not going to work (or may work until something breaks because of conflicts in address spaces). Make up some private address space networks for the address pools (for example 10.10.5.0/24 and 10.10.6.0/24) that do not overlap with the LAN address spaces.

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          Beach
          last edited by

          Hi!

          Nope it's not the same fx. 10.11.150.0/24 and 10.11.15.0/24

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            kpa
            last edited by

            Ok sorry, you were just masking the addresses in a way that it looked like they were the same  8) Btw, no need to mask private addresses in screenshots, nobody will be able to use them anyway since they are private to your own network.

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              Beach
              last edited by

              Ok, no problem!
              I'll keep that in mind.

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                kpa
                last edited by

                One thing came to my mind, have you tried with UDP instead of TCP? UDP is potentially more secure (with tls-auth key) and faster.

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                  Beach
                  last edited by

                  Thanks!
                  No I haven't tried that, and I'm not so sure that it's the problem with ipconfig.
                  Do you think that I should try it?

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                    kpa
                    last edited by

                    Ok I forgot about those ifconfig errors… I would redo the tunnels from scratch, first delete both of them and then reboot the firewall to make sure nothing is left dangling behind and then recreate them with the same details and then see if it starts working.

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                      Beach
                      last edited by

                      Thanks m8!

                      I will try this, but I can't do it until tomorrow (it's 19:11 here and I'm not a work)
                      I suppose that it will take some days to see any results, but I'll be back!

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                        Beach
                        last edited by

                        Hi again!

                        After I deleted the settings and rebooted, I configurerd it again with the same settings.
                        It's still working after nearly 3 weeks, so I hope that this was the solution.

                        Thanks to kpa and GruensFroeschli for helping me!!!

                        Regards
                        Beach

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                          Beach
                          last edited by

                          Hi folks!

                          Same problem again, I haven't done anything with the FW since my last post.
                          So my solution now is to remove one instance of OpenVPN and only use one.

                          I have another PfSense with OpenVPN at home that has been working with one instance since march this year.

                          So it could be a limit in OpenVPN, and hopefully it will be solved in 1.2.1 or 1.3.

                          Regards
                          Beach

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