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    Outbound openvpn to Expressvpn and route voIP traffic through it only - Bid $

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      When you switch to AON the existing auto rules should be filled in for you. If you then subsequently add any further interfaces you will have to manually add rules.
      If you post some screen shots I'm sure we can resolve this for you.

      If it is a problem with the remote VPN network pushing a new default route to you then you should be able to see that change in Diagnostics: Routes: in the GUI.

      Steve

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        xbipin
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        i managed to get it up and routing properly

        enabled AON
        in rules edited the default lan to any rule and set it to wan gateway
        created a new rule under lan for lan to sip server ip and set it to vpn gateway

        this did it for me but some other issues came up

        under floating i have 2 rules for lan to sip server and sip server to lan without any gateway specified but given the voip queue so traffic shaper can prioritize that, but after setting this vpn up, i only see the qVoIP on LAN getting pupulated and the the uplaod goes to the default qp2p instead of the qVoIP on WAN, any fix for that so this voip over vpn goes to the proper up and down qVoIP queue?

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Reading through this:
          http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html#redirect
          and then this:
          http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/manuals/65-openvpn-20x-manpage.html

          It would appear that the reason your routing table is being overwritten is due to the advanced command in the openvpn client setup: redirect-gateway def1
          Assuming you copied this from the StrongVPN guide.

          First check that your routing table is being changed as I outlined in my previous post. Then try removing this command and recheck.
          If this successfully prevents your default route changing then you can remove the gateway settings from the 'lan to any' rule.

          Steve

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            xbipin
            last edited by

            well i didnt, i use the below commands only

            fast-io;route-delay 2;verb 5;tun-mtu 1500;mssfix 1450;fragment 1300;persist-key;

            expressvpn gave me a ovpn file with the below contents so could u recommend what commands should i use out of them

            dev tun
            fast-io
            #proto tcp-client
            persist-key
            persist-tun
            replay-persist cur-replay-protection.cache
            nobind
            remote canada-cluster.expressnetwork.net 1194
            remote canada-cluster2.expressnetwork.net 1194
            remote canada-cluster3.expressnetwork.net 1194
            remote canada-cluster4.expressnetwork.net 1194
            remote-random
            pull
            # Use compression
            comp-lzo
            # Strong encryption
            tls-client
            tls-remote server
            ns-cert-type server
            tls-auth ssl/ta.key 1
            verb 3
            cert ssl/client.crt
            key ssl/client.key
            ca ssl/ca.crt
            
            route-method exe
            route-delay 2
            
            tun-mtu 1500
            fragment 1300
            mssfix 1450
            
            
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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              We have reached the limits of my own experience with this, anything further is experimental!  ::)
              However since something apparently is causing you default route to change I think you first need to confirm this is happening when you connect the OpenVPN tunnel by comparing your routing table before and after.

              Steve

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                xbipin
                last edited by

                i dont think the default gateway is being changed

                screenshot attached for before vpn and after vpn

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  No but it is pushing a route, 0.0.0.0/1, which includes the entire internet! It never has to use the default route any more because it has a route to everywhere.

                  This is the expected behaviour if the server is pushing the redirect-gateway def1 command:

                  Add the def1 flag to override the default gateway by using 0.0.0.0/1 and 128.0.0.0/1 rather than 0.0.0.0/0. This has the benefit of overriding but not wiping out the original default gateway.

                  You could prevent this by using the 'route-nopull' option in the client config but that will probably prevent any routing information being sent making the vpn connection useless. Might be worth a try though.  :-\

                  Steve

                  Edit: You can add routes back manually to the config file:
                  route yourvoipserverIP;

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                    xbipin
                    last edited by

                    after i added route-nopull i get the below routing table which seems correct now

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                      xbipin
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                      if i added the 'route-nopull' then went to AON and switched it back to Auto and under rules in lan to any removed the gateway which was as wan, all traffic goes out the default wan conenction which earlier wasnting working at all untill i specified wan as gateway so i guess that got solved.

                      according to this thread http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7361.0.html its not possible to shape traffic that goes inside a tunnel so the whole tunnel traffic needs to be sent to a single queue so i just want to route the voip so i added 2 rules under floating tab one with direction out and selected source as any and destination as vpn subnet and other as traffic in, source vpn subnet and destination any and assigned the qvoip to both but only the in traffic goes to qvoip and the out still goes to qp2p. both the rules r set as queues

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                        xbipin
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                        i guess i spoke too soon, AON needs to be left on but the default lan to any doesnt need a gateway atleast

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                        • stephenw10S
                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                          last edited by

                          You will always need AON enabled due to changes in openvpn setup detailed by ermal.

                          That's a good result though. Did you have to add a route back in the client config?

                          Steve

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                            xbipin
                            last edited by

                            no i didnt add any client config, all i did is add ur recommended command under advanced configuration in the client openvpn section which looks like this now

                            fast-io;route-delay 2;route-nopull;verb 5;tun-mtu 1500;mssfix 1450;fragment 1300;persist-key;

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                            • stephenw10S
                              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                              last edited by

                              @xbipin:

                              according to this thread http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,7361.0.html its not possible to shape traffic that goes inside a tunnel so the whole tunnel traffic needs to be sent to a single queue

                              That's only true for traffic in tunnel going through the pfSense box. Since the traffic destined for the VPN enters pfSense unencrypted it should be possible to shape it. Though I'm not sure quite how!

                              @xbipin:

                              i just want to route the voip so i added 2 rules under floating tab one with direction out and selected source as any and destination as vpn subnet and other as traffic in, source vpn subnet and destination any and assigned the qvoip to both but only the in traffic goes to qvoip and the out still goes to qp2p. both the rules r set as queues

                              Probably the out rule is not catching traffic because the VOIP server is not in the VPN subnet. Though the IN rule is catching traffic.  :-\

                              Steve

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                                xbipin
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                                but if u see, the rule under lan that says lan to sip server should go through vpn gateway, pfsense catches that and send it to the proper gateway so basically its able to detect upload traffic so then y cant it just assign the proper queue.

                                any1 else have any idea on how to send vpn traffic to the proper queue as all i would be sending through the tunnel is voip only so might as well send all vpn to the voip quene entirely

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                                • stephenw10S
                                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                  last edited by

                                  Can you give some screen shots of your queue rules, firewall rules etc?

                                  Steve

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                                    xbipin
                                    last edited by

                                    the rules on the floating tab are just queues

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                                      xbipin
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                                      few more screenshots

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                                        xbipin
                                        last edited by

                                        the 2 rules on floating tab that say * to mysip and mysip to * were originally created when i wasnt using vpn and voip used to work directly through wan. after vpn, the only additional rule i created was under lan for UDP * to mysip using gateway expressvpn

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                                        • stephenw10S
                                          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                                          last edited by

                                          Well this is definitely outside my experience now.  ;)
                                          However I think you need to disable the * to mysip rules on floating in order to make sure it's not them that are catching the inbound traffic and sending it to qvoip.

                                          Also I can't see how outbound traffic can possibly end up in qp2p when the only reference to it is for port 28183.  :-\

                                          Steve

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                                            xbipin
                                            last edited by

                                            well the 2 rules for mysip were made so traffic goes to qvoip, if i remove that then wont both up and down goto qp2p, we r trying here to send traffic tot he qvoip

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