How to create an OpenVPN client to IPVanish (updated & working)
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Solved !
You have to create the openvpn client BEFORE creating the OPT1 interface.
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so i got it to work but when i go and check my ipvanish ip on my browser it's still the same?
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I don't have an add button on mine under interfaces/assign
can someone help me out please? -
If you do not have any unassigned interfaces there is no add button presented. Create your OpenVPN client instance first.
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Agreed. I did this in the altered order suggested and it worked - although the auto-created rules didn't get made in the Firewall:NAT:Outbound section. I created them myself though (as close to the examples in the post as possible) and everything appears to be working.
Also did a test through www.ipleak.net to see if it was leaking dns - no dns leak either. Pretty impressed!
I'd previously tried a number of other devices for this kind of setup and none worked exactly right (or none of them had write ups/openvpn capable). This one is working exactly as expected and took me all of 20 mins max to get installed AND configured. -
Ack…spoke to soon. Worked fine for a month or so...now completely not functional.
Nothing changed, although for some reason the openvpn service went down and now (although restarted) won't get an IP address from the ipvanish server side.
Anyone have any ideas on a fix?
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Sounds like a problem with IPvanish. Have you called them?
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No not yet. Thinking it's something specific to the config/settings and might just reset them first and try again.
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Hmm…may be. Getting the following in the status for openvpn
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Ok, following what was in this thread, but without ssh or other checks - shutdown the whole machine (previously rebooted).
Modified the /conf/ipvanish.auth file with updated credentials.
Restarted Openvpn services. 2 Services wouldn't start automatically (NTP and one other I can't remember) - started them manually. Connection started working after this.
I'll keep monitoring. Considering it's been running for a while (about a month or more) without a complete shutdown, this could be something that needs scheduling in.
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Your walk through is old. You don't need an auth file any more. There's a place for username and password in the pfSense gui now.
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Would a CPU with AES-NI instructions help with this configuration?
