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      kejianshi
      last edited by

      I take it back - I don't have that topology option either.  Not sure what I was thinking earlier.
      I have two of those but not the topology one.

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        kejianshi
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        Did you set up rules on the firewall to allow/pass Openvpn to anywhere?

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          doktornotor Banned
          last edited by

          @kejianshi:

          I take it back - I don't have that topology option either.  Not sure what I was thinking earlier.
          I have two of those but not the topology one.

          Important note: You MUST use device type tun, NOT tap. Otherwise the option is just not there. (Read the OVPN docs for details.)

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            kejianshi
            last edited by

            Yeah - I definitely thought I saw that option before and now I definitely know I don't in my 2.03 
            I'm looking at my TUN tunnels that are up and working.  Odd.  I must have been mistaken.

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              elkosupertech
              last edited by

              As far as I can tell, OpenVPN's settings on the Firewall are set to allow all.

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              • jimpJ
                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                last edited by

                The last time I had to config Tomato as a client it had a quirk where, for whatever reason, I had to add this to the Tomato client config:

                
keepalive 10 60
ping-timer-rem

                And then it started connecting and working as expected.

                Other than that it was a fairly standard static key config, nothing too special.

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                  elkosupertech
                  last edited by

                  I have entered this on the Tomato side and still no joy.  Any other suggestions?

                  DJ

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                    doktornotor Banned
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                    Get in touch with Tomato guys… DD-WRT had OpenVPN buggy as hell more often than not, I doubt it's any better with Tomato.

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                      kejianshi
                      last edited by

                      When pfsense is connected to something else and its broken, I get the feeling that people don't come here because they feel its a pfsense issue.  I think they come here because no one will answer their questions in other places.  haha.

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                      • jimpJ
                        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                        OpenVPN is pretty standard, despite quirks from the router firmware involved.

                        Given that things have changed from the start to now, it might help to know exactly what settings are in use on both sides as it is right now.

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                          elkosupertech
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                          Here are the configs I have currently:

                          pfSense:
                          OpenVPN: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZWxrb3N1cGVydGVjaC5jb218d2Vic2l0ZXxneDo3MGM3ZWZmNGIzNGI0YzNi
                          Client Specific Override: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZWxrb3N1cGVydGVjaC5jb218d2Vic2l0ZXxneDozOGVlMjZjZDU0OGFjZWEw

                          Tomato
                          Basic: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZWxrb3N1cGVydGVjaC5jb218d2Vic2l0ZXxneDo0OGQ0N2YxNzY5M2M1NjY3
                          Advanced: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZWxrb3N1cGVydGVjaC5jb218d2Vic2l0ZXxneDo1OWRjM2M3YmVjYjI0MTU1

                          If you need more please let me know.  Thank you for all your help!

                          DJ

                          P.S. This Tomato router used to connect up with an Astaro Security appliance before they changed their licensing on it so I know that side works.  The only change I did with tomato was change the Keys for the new server.

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                          • jimpJ
                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                            last edited by

                            The client basic config for tomato links to the pfsense config.

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                              elkosupertech
                              last edited by

                              I edited the links, but just in case https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=ZWxrb3N1cGVydGVjaC5jb218d2Vic2l0ZXxneDo0OGQ0N2YxNzY5M2M1NjY3

                              Thanks again!

                              DJ

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                              • jimpJ
                                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                last edited by

                                Why do you have it on Remote Access SSL/TLS and not Peer to Peer SSL/TLS?

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                                • jimpJ
                                  jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                  last edited by

                                  I would move it to Peer-to-Peer SSL/TLS, kill the user auth.

                                  Other than the user+pass auth, I don't see anything odd about it from the settings.

                                  We'd need to see the OpenVPN logs from both sides to say much more.

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                                    elkosupertech
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                                    Well according to the instructions I used (very first post) that was the recommended way.  I am open to changing any of the settings I have.  Also I have stated that I can get it to work (one way) by turning on NAT on the Tomato side so that network then communicates though that way.

                                    DJ

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                                      elkosupertech
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                                      Change made.  And still same issue.  Here are the logs from Tomato:

                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,route 10.1.0.0 255.255.255.0,route 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0,route 10.2.0.0 255.255.255.0,route 172.18.0.1,topology net30,ping 10,ping-restart 60,ifconfig 172.18.0.6 172.18.0.5'
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: OPTIONS IMPORT: –ifconfig/up options modified
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP device tun11 opened
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: /sbin/ifconfig tun11 172.18.0.6 pointopoint 172.18.0.5 mtu 1500
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: /sbin/route add -net 10.1.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 172.18.0.5
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: /sbin/route add -net 10.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 172.18.0.5
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: /sbin/route add -net 10.2.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 172.18.0.5
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: /sbin/route add -net 172.18.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.255 gw 172.18.0.5
                                      Aug  2 10:40:34 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: Initialization Sequence Completed
                                      Aug  2 10:40:38 unknown daemon.err openvpn[10117]: event_wait : Interrupted system call (code=4)
                                      Aug  2 10:40:38 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: OpenVPN STATISTICS
                                      Aug  2 10:40:38 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: Updated,Fri Aug  2 10:40:38 2013
                                      Aug  2 10:40:38 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP read bytes,0
                                      Aug  2 10:40:38 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP write bytes,0
                                      Aug  2 10:40:38 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TCP/UDP read bytes,6521
                                      Aug  2 10:40:38 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TCP/UDP write bytes,4852
                                      Aug  2 10:40:38 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: Auth read bytes,0
                                      Aug  2 10:40:38 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: END
                                      Aug  2 10:40:42 unknown daemon.err openvpn[10117]: event_wait : Interrupted system call (code=4)
                                      Aug  2 10:40:42 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: OpenVPN STATISTICS
                                      Aug  2 10:40:42 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: Updated,Fri Aug  2 10:40:42 2013
                                      Aug  2 10:40:42 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP read bytes,0
                                      Aug  2 10:40:42 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP write bytes,0
                                      Aug  2 10:40:42 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TCP/UDP read bytes,6521
                                      Aug  2 10:40:42 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TCP/UDP write bytes,4852
                                      Aug  2 10:40:42 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: Auth read bytes,0
                                      Aug  2 10:40:42 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: END
                                      Aug  2 10:40:59 unknown daemon.err openvpn[10117]: event_wait : Interrupted system call (code=4)
                                      Aug  2 10:40:59 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: OpenVPN STATISTICS
                                      Aug  2 10:40:59 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: Updated,Fri Aug  2 10:40:59 2013
                                      Aug  2 10:40:59 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP read bytes,3060
                                      Aug  2 10:40:59 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP write bytes,0
                                      Aug  2 10:40:59 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TCP/UDP read bytes,6659
                                      Aug  2 10:40:59 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TCP/UDP write bytes,8205
                                      Aug  2 10:40:59 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: Auth read bytes,32
                                      Aug  2 10:40:59 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: END
                                      Aug  2 10:41:01 unknown user.info init[1]: VPN_LOG_NOTE: 73: VPN Client 1 already running…
                                      Aug  2 10:41:50 unknown daemon.err openvpn[10117]: event_wait : Interrupted system call (code=4)
                                      Aug  2 10:41:50 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: OpenVPN STATISTICS
                                      Aug  2 10:41:50 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: Updated,Fri Aug  2 10:41:50 2013
                                      Aug  2 10:41:50 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP read bytes,6883
                                      Aug  2 10:41:50 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TUN/TAP write bytes,0
                                      Aug  2 10:41:50 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TCP/UDP read bytes,7004
                                      Aug  2 10:41:50 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: TCP/UDP write bytes,12925
                                      Aug  2 10:41:50 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: Auth read bytes,112
                                      Aug  2 10:41:50 unknown daemon.notice openvpn[10117]: END
                                      Aug  2 10:42:01 unknown user.info init[1]: VPN_LOG_NOTE: 73: VPN Client 1 already running…

                                      and from pfSense:
                                      Aug 2 10:38:28 openvpn[567]: event_wait : Interrupted system call (code=4)
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[567]: /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkdown ovpns1 1500 1557 172.18.0.1 172.18.0.2 init
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[567]: SIGTERM[hard,] received, process exiting
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[26832]: OpenVPN 2.2.2 amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1 [SSL] [LZO2] [eurephia] built on Apr 2 2013
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[26832]: NOTE: the current –script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[26832]: TUN/TAP device /dev/tun1 opened
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[26832]: /sbin/ifconfig ovpns1 172.18.0.1 172.18.0.2 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.255 up
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[26832]: /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkup ovpns1 1500 1557 172.18.0.1 172.18.0.2 init
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[28114]: UDPv4 link local (bound): 204.28.248.153:1195
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[28114]: UDPv4 link remote: [undef]
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[28114]: Initialization Sequence Completed
                                      Aug 2 10:38:29 openvpn[28114]: IPv6 in tun mode is not supported in OpenVPN 2.2
                                      Aug 2 10:39:23 openvpn[28114]: 74.34.62.30:48938 Re-using SSL/TLS context
                                      Aug 2 10:39:26 openvpn[28114]: 74.34.62.30:48938 [VPN_Parents] Peer Connection Initiated with 74.34.62.30:48938
                                      Aug 2 10:40:05 openvpn[28114]: 74.34.62.30:64452 Re-using SSL/TLS context
                                      Aug 2 10:40:07 openvpn[28114]: 74.34.62.30:64452 [VPN_Parents] Peer Connection Initiated with 74.34.62.30:64452
                                      Aug 2 10:40:28 openvpn[28114]: 74.34.62.30:41811 Re-using SSL/TLS context
                                      Aug 2 10:40:31 openvpn[28114]: 74.34.62.30:41811 [VPN_Parents] Peer Connection Initiated with 74.34.62.30:41811

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                                        elkosupertech
                                        last edited by

                                        Was that all the logs needed?  Please let me know.

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                                          elkosupertech
                                          last edited by

                                          I've been trying to figure a solution to my problem and it seems to me that it thinks the gateway is on 172.18.0.5 but it sees the tomato client on 172.18.0.6.  Even stranger is that it's routing table shows to access the network behind tomato, to go to 172.18.0.2.  Is there a reason that pf Sense is so confused?

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                                          • jimpJ
                                            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                                            last edited by

                                            That is not pfSense, it's OpenVPN. And that is normal.

                                            For example, here is one site-to-site tunnel I have using SSL/TLS setup for multiple clients (some bits snipped):

                                            ovpns1: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.239.1 --> 192.168.239.2 netmask 0xffffffff 
...
192.168.a.0/24    192.168.239.2      UGS         0   685847 ovpns1
192.168.b.0/24    192.168.239.2      UGS         0        0 ovpns1
192.168.239.0/24   192.168.239.2      UGS         0        0 ovpns1
192.168.239.2      link#10            UH          0        0 ovpns1</up,pointopoint,running,multicast>

                                            And on the client side:

                                            ovpnc1: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.239.6 --> 192.168.239.5 netmask 0xffffffff 
...
192.168.z.0/24   192.168.239.5      UGS         0        0 ovpnc1
192.168.y.0/24   192.168.239.5      UGS         0    14557 ovpnc1
192.168.x.0/24   192.168.239.5      UGS         0        0 ovpnc1
192.168.239.0/24   192.168.239.5      UGS         0        0 ovpnc1
192.168.239.5      link#13            UH          0        0 ovpnc1</up,pointopoint,running,multicast>

                                            OpenVPN assigns addresses that way. Some exposed to the OS on the server side, others internal to OpenVPN on the server side. That is all completely normal for an SSL/TLS multi-site setup. The iroutes in OpenVPN client-specific overrides tell it which subnets are reachable via specific certificates.

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