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    Outbound PPTP VPN Connection broken AGAIN

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.0-RC Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • jimpJ
      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
      last edited by

      To maintain them? No, but to bypass the restrictions I mentioned, yes.

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        Brad303
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        Okay, I've been unable to maintain an outbound VPN connection from a PC on the LAN to an outside server for longer than a few minutes with the inbound PPTP VPN disabled (no redirect) and the pf scrub disabled.

        Where else can I look to troubleshoot this?

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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          Not sure what that might be. I had a PPTP connection up (and practically idle) from behind a 2.0 box to a 2.0 box for more than a half hour the other day.

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            pwnell
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            I must say if I do not run a ping to the destination PPTP VPN server my connection also diesโ€ฆ

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              Brad303
              last edited by

              This gets better!

              Now I can't even establish a connection.

              Other than the default outbound rule, any others that outbound PPTP needs? I believe I deleted the inbound rules when turning disabling the PPTP server.

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                Shouldn't be anything that it touches special, if you can't establish a PPTP connection the most likely cause is that you've already got a PPTP connection going on another machine to that same remote system.

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                  Brad303
                  last edited by

                  Well, I can guarantee that's not the case. I have, however made multiple attempts from my machine.

                  I don't see anything in states with the remote server's IP, so I'm not sure what it could be.

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                    Brad303
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                    Reboot fixed it.

                    Dunno why a reboot was required, but I'm not complaining.

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                      cmbaker82
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                      Since the issue won't be fixed until 2.1 is there a timeline for at least a beta of 2.1 that will contain the fix?ย  We've been dealing with the issue in hopes that a fix was coming sometime soon, but if it's going to be several more months then we'll probably want to switch to a different firewall that supports pptp until PFSense is stable in that regard, and then switch back.ย  Also if there is anything I can do to assist in helping the developers fix the issue I am willing.

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                        last edited by

                        No ETA. We have to release 2.0 before we can even think about ALPHAs of 2.1, let alone BETAs.

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