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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
      last edited by

      Your running version 1.03 of pfsense? Or is that the version of the openvpn gui your running?

      What client are you on?  Windows 7 unless you run openvpn as admin it won't create the route.

      So I have been running pfsense since the 1.x version and development snapshots on 2 and 2.1 and have never had any issues with openvpn.

      What remote network are you on?  So you run 172.16 /??  /16?? on your pfsense lan?  That could easy be in conflict with what your remote network is.

      Please post your full server config, can be found in /var/etc/openvpn server.conf – there should be a .conf file there for your server settings.

      Also post your route table from your client once you connect and what if any firewall rules do you have in place on pfsense?  What is in your openvpn tab?  Where does your wifi box sit? how is it connected to pfsense - you sure your ping is just blocked on host firewall your trying to ping?

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        ace_ventura
        last edited by

        pfsense 2.0.1-release
        client is windows 8 VM  I have run it as admin.  Here is its connection log:

        I just realized you were replying to the other guy.

        Wed Oct 03 12:31:46 2012 OpenVPN 2.2.2 Win32-MSVC++ [SSL] [LZO2] [PKCS11] built on Dec 15 2011
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:52 2012 IMPORTANT: OpenVPN's default port number is now 1194, based on an official port number assignment by IANA.  OpenVPN 2.0-beta16 and earlier used 5000 as the default port.
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:52 2012 WARNING: Make sure you understand the semantics of –tls-remote before using it (see the man page).
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:52 2012 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:52 2012 Control Channel Authentication: using 'pfsense-udp-1194-tls.key' as a OpenVPN static key file
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:52 2012 LZO compression initialized
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:52 2012 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:1194
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:52 2012 UDPv4 link remote: 173.16.39.88:1194
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:52 2012 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory – use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:54 2012 [userid] Peer Connection Initiated with 173.16.39.88:1194
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:56 2012 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection] opened: \.\Global{D4BBE6C8-8A49-435E-8EE8-75C7E2F4618D}.tap
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:56 2012 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 192.168.2.6/255.255.255.252 on interface {D4BBE6C8-8A49-435E-8EE8-75C7E2F4618D} [DHCP-serv: 192.168.2.5, lease-time: 31536000]
        Wed Oct 03 12:31:56 2012 Successful ARP Flush on interface [19] {D4BBE6C8-8A49-435E-8EE8-75C7E2F4618D}
        Wed Oct 03 12:32:02 2012 ROUTE: route addition failed using CreateIpForwardEntry: The object already exists.  [status=5010 if_index=19]
        The route addition failed: The object already exists.
        Wed Oct 03 12:32:02 2012 Initialization Sequence Completed

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          myke
          last edited by

          @johnpoz:

          Your running version 1.03 of pfsense? Or is that the version of the openvpn gui your running?

          What client are you on?  Windows 7 unless you run openvpn as admin it won't create the route.

          So I have been running pfsense since the 1.x version and development snapshots on 2 and 2.1 and have never had any issues with openvpn.

          What remote network are you on?  So you run 172.16 /??  /16?? on your pfsense lan?  That could easy be in conflict with what your remote network is.

          Please post your full server config, can be found in /var/etc/openvpn server.conf – there should be a .conf file there for your server settings.

          Also post your route table from your client once you connect and what if any firewall rules do you have in place on pfsense?  What is in your openvpn tab?  Where does your wifi box sit? how is it connected to pfsense - you sure your ping is just blocked on host firewall your trying to ping?

          Thanks Johnpoz for your answer.

          My version of pfsense is 2.0.1 and my remote network openvpn is 2.2.2. i'am administrator of my computer ( window 7 ).

          My pfsense lan is 172.16.0.0/21 and my network in the office is 192.168.0.0/24.

          In my firewalls logs i see my ping is ok but no responding.

          I can just access to my pfsense and i don't have internet.

          I will post full server config tomorow.

          Thanks for the help  :)

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          • johnpozJ
            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
            last edited by

            ace where is your route table - this shows that addition failed

            Wed Oct 03 12:32:02 2012 ROUTE: route addition failed using CreateIpForwardEntry: The object already exists.   [status=5010 if_index=19]

            edit:  ok you posted it before, notice there is no route to your 10.0.0.0/24 on there - see mine.

            My pfsense lan is 192.168.1.0/24 and in my route table and my connection info

            
            Wed Oct 03 12:26:23 2012 C:\WINDOWS\system32\route.exe ADD 192.168.1.0 MASK 255.255.255.0 10.0.200.5
            Wed Oct 03 12:26:23 2012 Route addition via IPAPI succeeded [adaptive]
            
            
            
            ===========================================================================
            Active Routes:
            Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway       Interface  Metric
                      0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0       10.56.41.1    10.56.41.136       10
                   10.0.200.1  255.255.255.255       10.0.200.5      10.0.200.6       1
                   10.0.200.4  255.255.255.252       10.0.200.6      10.0.200.6       30
                   10.0.200.6  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       30
                   10.56.41.0    255.255.255.0     10.56.41.136    10.56.41.136       10
                 10.56.41.136  255.255.255.255        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       10
               10.255.255.255  255.255.255.255       10.0.200.6      10.0.200.6       30
               10.255.255.255  255.255.255.255     10.56.41.136    10.56.41.136       10
                    127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        127.0.0.1       127.0.0.1       1
                  192.168.1.0    255.255.255.0       10.0.200.5      10.0.200.6       1
                    224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0       10.0.200.6      10.0.200.6       30
                    224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0     10.56.41.136    10.56.41.136       10
              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255       10.0.200.6               3       1
              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255       10.0.200.6               9       1
              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255       10.0.200.6               6       1
              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255       10.0.200.6               7       1
              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255       10.0.200.6               5       1
              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255       10.0.200.6      10.0.200.6       1
              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255       10.0.200.6               2       1
              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255     10.56.41.136    10.56.41.136       1
            Default Gateway:        10.56.41.1
            ===========================================================================
            
            

            192.168.1.0    255.255.255.0      10.0.200.5      10.0.200.6      1

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              ace_ventura
              last edited by

              Is that not the output of "route print" that i pasted above?

              I will paste again in case its different this time.

              ===========================================================================
              Interface List
              19…00 ff d4 bb e6 c8 ......TAP-Win32 Adapter V9
              12...00 0c 29 37 bc ee ......Intel(R) 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
                1...........................Software Loopback Interface 1
              14...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #2
              15...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface
              17...00 00 00 00 00 00 00 e0 Microsoft ISATAP Adapter #4

              IPv4 Route Table

              Active Routes:
              Network Destination        Netmask          Gateway      Interface  Metric
                        0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0    192.168.186.2  192.168.186.129    10
                      10.0.0.0    255.255.255.0      192.168.2.5      192.168.2.6    30
                      127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                      127.0.0.1  255.255.255.255        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                127.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                    192.168.2.1  255.255.255.255      192.168.2.5      192.168.2.6    30
                    192.168.2.4  255.255.255.252        On-link      192.168.2.6    286
                    192.168.2.6  255.255.255.255        On-link      192.168.2.6    286
                    192.168.2.7  255.255.255.255        On-link      192.168.2.6    286
                  192.168.186.0    255.255.255.0        On-link  192.168.186.129    266
                192.168.186.129  255.255.255.255        On-link  192.168.186.129    266
                192.168.186.255  255.255.255.255        On-link  192.168.186.129    266
                      224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                      224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0        On-link      192.168.2.6    286
                      224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0        On-link  192.168.186.129    266
                255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        On-link      192.168.2.6    286
                255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        On-link  192.168.186.129    266

              Persistent Routes:
                None

              IPv6 Route Table

              Active Routes:
              If Metric Network Destination      Gateway
                1    306 ::1/128                  On-link
              19    286 fe80::/64                On-link
              12    266 fe80::/64                On-link
              12    266 fe80::81b1:8393:5628:5a3c/128
                                                  On-link
              19    286 fe80::a472:6f0a:696a:46ff/128
                                                  On-link
                1    306 ff00::/8                On-link
              19    286 ff00::/8                On-link
              12    266 ff00::/8                On-link

              Persistent Routes:
                None

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              • johnpozJ
                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                last edited by

                now it shows

                10.0.0.0    255.255.255.0      192.168.2.5      192.168.2.6    30

                so should be working - you sure your host is just not answering?  Do a traceroute

                D:>tracert -d 192.168.1.100

                Tracing route to 192.168.1.100 over a maximum of 30 hops

                1  189 ms  218 ms  249 ms  10.0.200.1
                  2  168 ms  130 ms  266 ms  192.168.1.100

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                  ace_ventura
                  last edited by

                  seems to be working now, i'm not sure what changed. before I couldn't ping anything.

                  C:\Users\Mitch>tracert -d 192.168.1.100

                  Tracing route to 192.168.1.100 over a maximum of 30 hops

                  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.186.2
                    2    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                    3    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                    4    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                    5    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                    6    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                    7    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                    8    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                    9    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                  10    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                  11    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                  12    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                  13    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                  14    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                  15    *        *        *    Request timed out.
                  16

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                    last edited by

                    well in your first post you had no route - so no your not going to be able to get to anything on the other side of the tunnel.

                    In your second post you did, so that makes sense why its working now, and was not before.

                    Why would you trace to my 192.168.1.100 address??? Did I really have to spell out to use an IP on your pfsense lan vs my example ;)

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                      ace_ventura
                      last edited by

                      haha because i was on call at the time and not really paying attention to what i was doing, lol i'm sorry I feel like an idiot.

                      I'm guessing its because the client wasn't run as administrator, which is odd since I explicitly told it to the first time.

                      just for giggles ill prove myself now LOL

                      C:\Users\Mitch>tracert -d 10.0.0.11

                      Tracing route to 10.0.0.11 over a maximum of 30 hops

                      1    14 ms    10 ms    10 ms  192.168.2.1
                        2    11 ms    10 ms    10 ms  10.0.0.11

                      Trace complete.

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                        ace_ventura
                        last edited by

                        Thanks for your help though, much appreciated.

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                        • johnpozJ
                          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                          last edited by

                          yeah windows 7 needs to run as admin to add the route, but it seems the new beta version of openvpn client has gotten around that?  You could try the new beta 2.3_beta1

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                            myke
                            last edited by

                            Hi,
                            Here my conf :

                            Client Config

                            dev tun
                            persist-tun
                            persist-key
                            proto udp
                            cipher BF-CBC
                            tls-client
                            client
                            resolv-retry infinite
                            remote 109.6.229.83 1194
                            tls-remote Proxiel Server Cert
                            auth-user-pass
                            pkcs12 doberman-udp-1194.p12
                            tls-auth doberman-udp-1194-tls.key 1
                            comp-lzo

                            Server Settings :
                            dev ovpns1
                            dev-type tun
                            dev-node /dev/tun1
                            writepid /var/run/openvpn_server1.pid
                            #user nobody
                            #group nobody
                            script-security 3
                            daemon
                            keepalive 10 60
                            ping-timer-rem
                            persist-tun
                            persist-key
                            proto udp
                            cipher BF-CBC
                            up /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkup
                            down /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkdown
                            local 192.168.1.1
                            tls-server
                            server 10.0.8.0 255.255.255.0
                            client-config-dir /var/etc/openvpn-csc
                            username-as-common-name
                            auth-user-pass-verify /var/etc/openvpn/server1.php via-env
                            tls-verify /var/etc/openvpn/server1.tls-verify.php
                            lport 1194
                            management /var/etc/openvpn/server1.sock unix
                            max-clients 10
                            push "route 172.16.0.0 255.255.248.0"
                            ca /var/etc/openvpn/server1.ca
                            cert /var/etc/openvpn/server1.cert
                            key /var/etc/openvpn/server1.key
                            dh /etc/dh-parameters.1024
                            tls-auth /var/etc/openvpn/server1.tls-auth 0
                            comp-lzo
                            persist-remote-ip
                            float
                            route 172.16.0.0 255.255.248.0

                            firewall rules openvpn tab:
                            Proto:* Source:* Port:* Destination:* Port:* GW:* Queue: none
                            action:pass
                            interface: openvpn

                            IPv4 Table de routage

                            Itinéraires actifs :
                            Destination réseau    Masque réseau  Adr. passerelle  Adr. interface Métrique
                                      0.0.0.0          0.0.0.0    192.168.0.254    192.168.0.75    20
                                      0.0.0.0        128.0.0.0        10.0.8.1        10.0.8.2    30
                                    10.0.8.0  255.255.255.252        On-link          10.0.8.2    286
                                    10.0.8.2  255.255.255.255        On-link          10.0.8.2    286
                                    10.0.8.3  255.255.255.255        On-link          10.0.8.2    286
                                    127.0.0.0        255.0.0.0        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                                    127.0.0.1  255.255.255.255        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                              127.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                                    128.0.0.0        128.0.0.0        10.0.8.1        10.0.8.2    30
                                  172.16.0.0    255.255.248.0        10.0.8.1        10.0.8.2    30
                                  192.168.0.0    255.255.255.0        On-link      192.168.0.75    276
                                192.168.0.75  255.255.255.255        On-link      192.168.0.75    276
                                192.168.0.255  255.255.255.255        On-link      192.168.0.75    276
                                192.168.56.0    255.255.255.0        On-link      192.168.56.1    276
                                192.168.56.1  255.255.255.255        On-link      192.168.56.1    276
                              192.168.56.255  255.255.255.255        On-link      192.168.56.1    276
                                    224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                                    224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0        On-link      192.168.56.1    276
                                    224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0        On-link          10.0.8.2    286
                                    224.0.0.0        240.0.0.0        On-link      192.168.0.75    276
                              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        On-link        127.0.0.1    306
                              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        On-link      192.168.56.1    276
                              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        On-link          10.0.8.2    286
                              255.255.255.255  255.255.255.255        On-link      192.168.0.75    276

                            My Lan Office network is 192.168.0.0 , My pfsense Lan is 172.16.0.0/21 and The tunnel network 10.0.8.0/24

                            So what can i do now ?
                            Thanks.

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                              phil.davis
                              last edited by

                              push "route 172.16.0.0 255.255.248.0"
                              route 172.16.0.0 255.255.248.0

                              Your server config has both route and push route with the same address. As I understand it, the server is on the pfSense that has LAN 172.16.0.0/21 - so the server should have only:

                              push "route 172.16.0.0 255.255.248.0"

                              Then it will tell ("push a route to") clients that connect saying that it is the way to reach 172.16.0.0/21

                              The extra:

                              route 172.16.0.0 255.255.248.0

                              will confuse the routing - this tells pfSense that 172.16.0.0/21 can be reached by sending packets out this OpenVPN server - which is not correct.

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                                myke
                                last edited by

                                I remove the extra route and i'm still serching my issue.

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                                  myke
                                  last edited by

                                  hello,
                                  i try with server mode Peer to Peer in a other pfsense box.

                                  With the same parameter i have internet but i can't ping the computer and AP on the Lan pfsense.

                                  there's a problem when we use OpenVpn with multi wan,failover , and Captive Portal ?

                                  i don't know where is blocking cause no rules blocked the traffic….

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                                    myke
                                    last edited by

                                    I'm back.
                                    I try with Ipsec but i've got the same issue…  :'(

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                                      phil.davis
                                      last edited by

                                      local 192.168.1.1
                                      

                                      This looks wrong in your server config. It should be the WAN IP that the server is on. I am guessing that the server is not on a private address like 192.168.1.1
                                      I just noticed this issue on Redmine http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2582 and confirmed the problem. If you change your static IP on WAN, then pfSense does not update the OpenVPN conf files. If you go to each OpenVPN server and client and edit+save again, the conf files are generated again and have the new WAN IP in the "local n.n.n.n" line.

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                                        myke
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                                        Hi,

                                        Thanks Davis but i have the same result, i can reach my pfsense Lan.

                                        I try with an SDSL router with the Wan IP but exactly the same issues…..

                                        Here my server1.conf :

                                        dev ovpns1
                                        dev-type tun
                                        dev-node /dev/tun1
                                        writepid /var/run/openvpn_server1.pid
                                        #user nobody
                                        #group nobody
                                        script-security 3
                                        daemon
                                        keepalive 10 60
                                        ping-timer-rem
                                        persist-tun
                                        persist-key
                                        proto tcp-server
                                        cipher BF-CBC
                                        up /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkup
                                        down /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkdown
                                        local 81.252.136.49
                                        tls-server
                                        server 10.0.8.0 255.255.255.0
                                        client-config-dir /var/etc/openvpn-csc
                                        ifconfig 10.0.8.1 10.0.8.2
                                        tls-verify /var/etc/openvpn/server1.tls-verify.php
                                        lport 1194
                                        management /var/etc/openvpn/server1.sock unix
                                        max-clients 8
                                        push "route 172.16.0.0 255.255.248.0"
                                        ca /var/etc/openvpn/server1.ca
                                        cert /var/etc/openvpn/server1.cert
                                        key /var/etc/openvpn/server1.key
                                        dh /etc/dh-parameters.1024
                                        crl-verify /var/etc/openvpn/server1.crl-verify
                                        comp-lzo

                                        Thanks Phil Davis but

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                                          myke
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi,
                                          I just reboot my pfsense and my VPN works now….

                                          Thanks for the help.

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