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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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      If its a modem and a router then its a gatway!

      What is the model number – the HG510?  I show an a model, a v model, just the 510...  If your on the 520 there there even more model versions.  Its real hard -- look on the device!!!  What does it say for the model number?

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        LeCygne
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        @johnpoz:

        What does it say for the model number?

        HG655b

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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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          Well that is sure not the last one one the url you sent ;)

          Simple google found this
          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzPUxjPDW9Y

          and this
          https://luciancovaci.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/adsl-romtelecom-configurare-in-bridge/

          And from the manual
          Says to adjust the connection type to bridge in drop down combo box..  So clearly it supports it - I would highly suggest you just contact your isp and them them you want to put it in bridge mode and they can walk you through the steps.

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            LeCygne
            last edited by

            @johnpoz:

            Well that is sure not the last one one the url you sent ;)

            Simple google found this
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzPUxjPDW9Y

            and this
            https://luciancovaci.wordpress.com/2012/07/19/adsl-romtelecom-configurare-in-bridge/

            And from the manual
            Says to adjust the connection type to bridge in drop down combo box..  So clearly it supports it - I would highly suggest you just contact your isp and them them you want to put it in bridge mode and they can walk you through the steps.

            thank you man

            now all thing go correctlly but how will i make a VPN client a part of my network,meaning sees all people on my network ?

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              LeCygne
              last edited by

              Guys help me…this is the last step of our topic .

              i'm waiting you .

              thank you .

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                firewalluser
                last edited by

                I havent been able to get OpenVPN using TAP to work either as you can see from my post here http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,58724.0.html

                I have got TUN working though, I can ping the pfsense firewall, ping other devices on the network and can even remote access onto my Win7 desktop and SSH to my linux servers from inside the lan.

                It might pay to use TUN for now as I have seen some comments on this board that 2.0.x has some issues which might be affecting the TAP/Bridge mode, but these should be resolved when 2.1 is released. Alternatively you could try a beta of 2.1 if you fancy the risk.

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                  LeCygne
                  last edited by

                  Guys…i'm waiting you .

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                    last edited by

                    Waiting for what?

                    So now your pfsense has public IP on its wan?  Then run through the openvpn wizard and your done.. Not sure what else you think you need to do?

                    What is not working now?

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                      LeCygne
                      last edited by

                      @johnpoz:

                      Waiting for what?

                      So now your pfsense has public IP on its wan?  Then run through the openvpn wizard and your done.. Not sure what else you think you need to do?

                      What is not working now?

                      I'm waiting for this :i could see any device on my network (servers,printers,etc) .

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                        Yeah once you vpn in, depending on what firewall rules you put in place you can access anything you want on your network.  I vpn into my home network pretty much every day.  I am on now - yes I can print to my printer if I want, I can remote desktop to any box on my network, I can access my file shares, etc. etc. etc.

                        D:>net view \storage.local.lan
                        Shared resources at \storage.local.lan

                        My storage server

                        Share name  Type  Used as  Comment

                        –-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                        J          Disk
                        Media      Disk
                        Molly      Disk
                        temp        Disk
                        The command completed successfully.

                        Thats my NAS on my home network, while I am here at work.

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                          LeCygne
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                          @johnpoz:

                          Yeah once you vpn in, depending on what firewall rules you put in place you can access anything you want on your network.  I vpn into my home network pretty much every day.  I am on now - yes I can print to my printer if I want, I can remote desktop to any box on my network, I can access my file shares, etc. etc. etc.

                          D:>net view \storage.local.lan
                          Shared resources at \storage.local.lan

                          My storage server

                          Share name  Type  Used as  Comment

                          –-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
                          J           Disk
                          Media       Disk
                          Molly       Disk
                          temp        Disk
                          The command completed successfully.

                          Thats my NAS on my home network, while I am here at work.

                          So tell me what are rules will i use ?

                          thank you .

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                          • johnpozJ
                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                            You wouldn't use any rules really unless you want to limit or block something - wizard should create the default rule

                            IPv4 * * * * * * none   OpenVPN pfsense wizard

                            The above is what I have in my openvpn tab

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                              LeCygne
                              last edited by

                              @johnpoz:

                              You wouldn't use any rules really unless you want to limit or block something - wizard should create the default rule

                              IPv4 * * * * * * none   OpenVPN pfsense wizard

                              The above is what I have in my openvpn tab

                              What is subnet' ip address are you using and for vpn' clients ?

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                              • johnpozJ
                                johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                                You can use whatever you want.. I use 2 different ones for tcp or udp connections I use

                                NO TCP / 443 10.0.200.0/24 pfsense tcp
                                NO UDP / 1194 10.0.8.0/24 pfsense udp

                                Just use something that is unlikely to conflict with the network segment connecting to you.

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                                  LeCygne
                                  last edited by

                                  @johnpoz:

                                  You can use whatever you want.. I use 2 different ones for tcp or udp connections I use

                                  NO TCP / 443 10.0.200.0/24 pfsense tcp
                                  NO UDP / 1194 10.0.8.0/24 pfsense udp

                                  Just use something that is unlikely to conflict with the network segment connecting to you.

                                  So why i could not see any device on my network also i can't ping any device except my pfsense ?

                                  i have a rule like your rule on my WAN and LAN

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                                  • johnpozJ
                                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                                    Are we to just guess your setup?  For all I know you have host firewalls blocking ping.  What does could not see mean?  Are you talking like a windows browse list - thats not going to happen over different segments and a nat.  You could run a wins server if you want to have browselists across segments.

                                    For all we know you have 192.168.1.0/24 on your pfsense lan side and remote network is also 192.168.1.0/24 – are you sending your route, is the client getting the route?

                                    Post up your openvpn config, did you do a traceroute from the client that could not ping your pfsense box?  Is he sending the traffic down the tunnel?

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                                      LeCygne
                                      last edited by

                                      @johnpoz:

                                      Are we to just guess your setup?  For all I know you have host firewalls blocking ping.  What does could not see mean?  Are you talking like a windows browse list - thats not going to happen over different segments and a nat.  You could run a wins server if you want to have browselists across segments.

                                      For all we know you have 192.168.1.0/24 on your pfsense lan side and remote network is also 192.168.1.0/24 – are you sending your route, is the client getting the route?

                                      Post up your openvpn config, did you do a traceroute from the client that could not ping your pfsense box?  Is he sending the traffic down the tunnel?

                                      tunnel network : 192.168.10.0/24
                                      my lan:192.168.1.0/24

                                      after connecting to my network i got 192.168.10.6 (windows told me that )

                                      after that i can ping only pfsense box

                                      tell me exactly what are you looking about openvpn confi because there are many fields with vpn confi .

                                      Also about i could't see any device i mean at least i ping them (my devices:pritner,computers,servers)
                                      and sharing files .

                                      i hope what i told you to be helpful .

                                      thank you .

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                                      • johnpozJ
                                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                                        last edited by

                                        And where are you connecting from?  What is that network?

                                        Post up output of route print after you connect.

                                        Do a traceroute to the IP your trying to ping.

                                        So what if there are multiple fields, here attached is mine.. And then the client config from client export.  Just snipped out part of public IP for privacy.
                                        –
                                        dev tun
                                        persist-tun
                                        persist-key
                                        cipher BF-CBC
                                        tls-client
                                        client
                                        resolv-retry infinite
                                        remote 24.13.xx.xx 443 tcp
                                        tls-remote pfsense-openvpn
                                        pkcs12 pfsense-TCP-443-johnpoz.p12
                                        tls-auth pfsense-TCP-443-johnpoz-tls.key 1
                                        ns-cert-type server
                                        comp-lzo

                                        config.png
                                        config.png_thumb

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                                          LeCygne
                                          last edited by

                                          @johnpoz:

                                          And where are you connecting from?  What is that network?

                                          Post up output of route print after you connect.

                                          Do a traceroute to the IP your trying to ping.

                                          So what if there are multiple fields, here attached is mine.. And then the client config from client export.  Just snipped out part of public IP for privacy.
                                          –
                                          dev tun
                                          persist-tun
                                          persist-key
                                          cipher BF-CBC
                                          tls-client
                                          client
                                          resolv-retry infinite
                                          remote 24.13.xx.xx 443 tcp
                                          tls-remote pfsense-openvpn
                                          pkcs12 pfsense-TCP-443-johnpoz.p12
                                          tls-auth pfsense-TCP-443-johnpoz-tls.key 1
                                          ns-cert-type server
                                          comp-lzo




                                          after connecting to my pfsense this is what i got :

                                          
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:14 2013 OpenVPN 2.2.1 Win32-MSVC++ [SSL] [LZO2] built on Jul  1 2011
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:17 2013 WARNING: Make sure you understand the semantics of --tls-remote before using it (see the man page).
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:17 2013 NOTE: OpenVPN 2.1 requires '--script-security 2' or higher to call user-defined scripts or executables
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:17 2013 Control Channel Authentication: using 'pfsense-udp-1195-internal-ca-tls.key' as a OpenVPN static key file
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:17 2013 LZO compression initialized
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:17 2013 UDPv4 link local (bound): [undef]:1194
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:17 2013 UDPv4 link remote: 37.xxx.xxx.xxx:1195
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:17 2013 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:20 2013 [internal-ca] Peer Connection Initiated with 37.xxx.xxx.xxx:1195
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:23 2013 TAP-WIN32 device [Local Area Connection 2] opened: \\.\Global\{BFEE7338-93E9-47C0-8501-430F8AC797C1}.tap
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:23 2013 Notified TAP-Win32 driver to set a DHCP IP/netmask of 192.168.200.6/255.255.255.252 on interface {BFEE7338-93E9-47C0-8501-430F8AC797C1} [DHCP-serv: 192.168.200.5, lease-time: 31536000]
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:23 2013 Successful ARP Flush on interface [23] {BFEE7338-93E9-47C0-8501-430F8AC797C1}
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:28 2013 WARNING: potential route subnet conflict between local LAN [192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0] and remote VPN [192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0]
                                          Sun Feb 17 20:45:28 2013 Initialization Sequence Completed
                                          
                                          

                                          after pinging 192.168.1.1 :

                                          reqeust timed out
                                          

                                          Also :

                                          Tracing route to 192.168.1.1 over a maximum of 30 hops
                                          
                                            1    55 ms    55 ms    53 ms  192.168.200.1
                                            2     *        *        *     Request timed out.
                                            3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
                                            4     *        *
                                          
                                          

                                          thank you .

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                                            LeCygne
                                            last edited by

                                            Also :

                                            dev tun
                                            persist-tun
                                            persist-key
                                            proto udp
                                            cipher AES-128-CBC
                                            tls-client
                                            client
                                            resolv-retry infinite
                                            remote 37.xxx.xxx.xxx 1195
                                            tls-remote internal-ca
                                            auth-user-pass
                                            pkcs12 pfsense-udp-1195-internal-ca.p12
                                            tls-auth pfsense-udp-1195-internal-ca-tls.key 1
                                            comp-lzo
                                            
                                            
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