New OpenVPN setup for road-warriors - connected but no routing
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Did you try shooting it with a 12 gauge shotgun? (Teasing)
Thats odd. I've never seen anything like that before. It should allow you to configure remote access. Thats very basic.
I wonder… Do you have user accounts and certs set up on your pfsense other than Admin? Because you need too. It required.
If pfsense thinks there are no users and no user certs it might not present you remote access options.
I had assumed these road warriors of yours had limited user accounts installed on pfsense.
You can get away with creating just 1 user and one user cert and allowing multiple concurrent connections by that user, but its better to set up one user account per "road warrior". You just go into system > user manager and add users, passwords and user certs.
Then you might have much better luck.
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I do have a user I set up that I've been using for testing, and that's the one I've been using in the OpenVPN client downloader
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Hang on, do I even need the "client" tab on the OpenVPN config? Going to try a manual approach as per: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=22115.0
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Getting the shotgun ready now. Just recreated everything manually, and no difference. VPN client connects fine, lights go green, routes are created, but nothing is passed.
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When you want to connect a windows machine to a pfsense for the purposes of tunneling, its a server client relationship. Not peer to peer. I think just a straight up simple TUN tunnel is the way and those are made with wizard.
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TUN is what I've been trying :(
I'm going to try it on a different remote computer, in case it's something wonky installed on my PC. Hopefully that's it, although it'll be annoying :)
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I don't think thats it. While you arwe doing that, I'm going to get some coffee and try to find why you are not getting anything other than "peer" as options. Because thats not right. Not on pfsense 2.03 for sure.
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Gah, just installed the Android client on my phone and it seemed to work right off the bat. Going to try a different remote machine.
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hahahahahahahahahahahahah…. DAMN WINDOWS!!!!!!!
(Still doesn't explain your limited tunnel options to me)
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Okay, so works on my Android phone and an Ubuntu VM I just spun up, but not on either of my Windows 8 computers. Guess there's something with the OpenVPN client on Windows 8…
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Windows 8 firewalls?
Was the install ran as admin?Beyond that, I cant even imagine what.
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Well I'll be… Once I worked out it's a Windows 8 + OpenVPN problem, I had something to Google, and came upon this post by Luis Silva.
You have to start the Network Connections service, which is normally set to "Manual", and only runs when the "network connections" dialog is open. Start that service, and the VPN client works!!
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Thank you for helping me with this problem. I have learned something useful…
(True statement - Although, wasn't it supposed to be the other way around!)
Windows 8myopenvpn....
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I'd suggest a new thread on Windows 8myopenvpn…. actually.
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You have to start the Network Connections service, which is normally set to "Manual", and only runs when the "network connections" dialog is open. Start that service, and the VPN client works!!
You know, having huge blinking tiles everywhere is so much more important than network connectivity…
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I'd suggest a new thread on Windows 8myopenvpn…. actually.
You mean here? I'm happy to write a quick post specifically for Windows 8 to help people find this info :)
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Windows 8 looks like something designed for either the vision impaired or for exclusive use of kindergarteners or both.
But yeah, I suspect this solution will be something lots of people who moved beyond windows 7 will need to know.
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I think you should white it up and maybe it will get "stickied" if something like it doesn't already exist or a fix isn't already in the works.
I don't use windows 8 or 7 or Vista… Or ME or... But I digress. -
Gah, just installed the Android client on my phone and it seemed to work right off the bat. Going to try a different remote machine.
What app and settings were used for it to make it work ? Do you mind sharing the pfsense rules that allow traffic to cross through the VPN? I've been reading your very good troubleshooting logic and I believe I am almost there. Thanks
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Not to beat a dead horse, but has anyone run into this with windows 7? I have three machines that I am trying to Use and all are getting this same thing… Network connections are started on all...
It's the exact same symptoms though, connection just fine, but once connected I can only ping out tot he firewall. No network access.