Routing specific LAN segment via OpenVPN tunnel
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Unless this is a bug (which it very well may be), my guess is the firewall rules are just over complicated and not being followed like you'd expect.
What VPN service are you using? I'd like to test the same scenario on my end.
Yes, but I need to know how the packet forwarding differs and what rules are being looked at differently when traffic is established from the outside versus inside.
The service is OVPN (https://www.ovpn.com/en) you can get a test account for a few hours I believe…
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"it's a vpn tunnel wan service"
So in that case you would be natting to what the exit point is on that vpn service. If your not seeing return traffic..
"if I try to access a service running on a VM within VLAN99 externally"
This would have to be done via a port forward on the vpn service.. Your asking for unsolicited traffic to be sent down their tunnel.. Which you would then have to port forward on pfsense to what IP you want it to go to.. With a vpn privacy service your going to be behind a double nat..
So your client
192.168.1.100 –-> pfsense privateTunnelIP ---- vpn ----> VPNservice --- VPNpublicIP ----> internet
So to the internet you look like VPNpublicIP, answers get sent back to it, vpnservice state tables says oh that is privateTunnelIP so gets sent back to pfsense, pfsense says oh that is 192.168.1.100
What your asking for is unsolicated traffic..
Im on the internet and I talk to VPNpublicIP on port X.. That service has to have a port forward that says hey send that to privatedTunnelIP on pfsense. Pfsense has to have a port forward that says oh traffic hitting me on my privateTunnelIP on port X gets forwarded to IP 192.168.1.?
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"it's a vpn tunnel wan service"
So in that case you would be natting to what the exit point is on that vpn service. If your not seeing return traffic..
"if I try to access a service running on a VM within VLAN99 externally"
This would have to be done via a port forward on the vpn service.. Your asking for unsolicited traffic to be sent down their tunnel.. Which you would then have to port forward on pfsense to what IP you want it to go to.. With a vpn privacy service your going to be behind a double nat..
So your client
192.168.1.100 –-> pfsense privateTunnelIP ---- vpn ----> VPNservice --- VPNpublicIP ----> internet
So to the internet you look like VPNpublicIP, answers get sent back to it, vpnservice state tables says oh that is privateTunnelIP so gets sent back to pfsense, pfsense says oh that is 192.168.1.100
What your asking for is unsolicated traffic..
Im on the internet and I talk to VPNpublicIP on port X.. That service has to have a port forward that says hey send that to privatedTunnelIP on pfsense. Pfsense has to have a port forward that says oh traffic hitting me on my privateTunnelIP on port X gets forwarded to IP 192.168.1.?
Yes, the traffic is port forwarded on the VPN service provider ingress, it's routed via my tunnel and port forwarded to the local host.
All seems fine here, since I do see traffic incoming (as per the tcpdumps).
The same for an established session from local host.
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Per traffic in the tcpdump, the traffic IS arriving to the VPN ip, and arrives at the private IP in his vlan 99 group, and even responds, but the response is attempting to go out through the WAN, instead of the VPN gateway.
Yet he has the rules right there to use the gateway.
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"but the response is attempting to go out through the WAN, instead of the VPN gateway."
Where are you seeing that??? The tcpdumps do not show that..
This is the unsolicited traffic, the way I see it
22:10:55.944344 IP 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.128.164.2.59362: Flags [s], seq 3526785419, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 34928838 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:56.943427 IP 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.128.164.2.59362: Flags [s], seq 3526785419, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 34929088 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:58.947523 IP 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.128.164.2.59362: Flags [s], seq 3526785419, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 34929589 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length So where is his port forward on 10.128.164.2 (his vpn interface?) to send port 59362 his inside box on vlan99 "and port forwarded to the local host. " Where is your port forward? And where is your sniff on your vlan99 interface showing this traffic being forwarded to whatever IP on the inside??[/s][/s][/s] -
"but the response is attempting to go out through the WAN, instead of the VPN gateway."
Where are you seeing that??? The tcpdumps do not show that..
This is the unsolicited traffic, the way I see it
22:10:55.944344 IP 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.128.164.2.59362: Flags [s], seq 3526785419, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 34928838 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:56.943427 IP 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.128.164.2.59362: Flags [s], seq 3526785419, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 34929088 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:58.947523 IP 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.128.164.2.59362: Flags [s], seq 3526785419, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 34929589 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length So where is his port forward on 10.128.164.2 (his vpn interface?) to send port 59362 his inside box on vlan99 That's the incoming traffic, 80.239.147.29 is the external host. 10.128.164.2 is the OpenVPN tunnel network's IP. Could you explain what do you mean by unsolicited traffic? The traffic 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.128.164.2.59362 is what I want, I just want the return path to go the same way... [/s][/s][/s] -
WAN interface, only the replies to the iperf session is here…
[2.3.3-RELEASE][root@fw-pf.kroem.eu]/root: tcpdump -i igb0 -nn host 80.239.147.29 and port not ssh tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on igb0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 22:10:55.944666 IP 10.128.164.2.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33974369 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:56.943658 IP 10.128.164.2.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33974619 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:58.141509 IP 10.128.164.2.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33974919 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:58.947823 IP 10.128.164.2.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33975120 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:11:01.341281 IP 10.128.164.2.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33975719 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 ^CThis is his WAN interface tcpdump.
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"The traffic 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.128.164.2.59362"
Yes this coming into your vpn interface.
So sniff your vlan99 interface when you do that, is your port forward sending it out the vlan99 interface to your client and is your client answering back to pfsense?
You could have an asymmetrical issue where pfsense sends it on to your host on your vlan99.. But vlan99 host is sending it to a different IP as its gateway?
Also it seems you have multiple threads about the same topic?? You should have the mods merge them!!!
Have you posted your port forwards for your vpn interface?
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I think it would also be helpful to see the rules from the "OPT" interface assigned to the tunnel as well.
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"The traffic 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.128.164.2.59362"
Yes this coming into your vpn interface.
So sniff your vlan99 interface when you do that, is your port forward sending it out the vlan99 interface to your client and is your client answering back to pfsense?
I appreciate your help - but really, that information is already in the thread :) I have a TCPdump of my VLAN99 interface above, you can see that packets are being sent between the same IP's when it's "working" (ping test outbound) and not working (Iperf session inbound)
[2.3.3-RELEASE][root@fw-pf.kroem.eu]/root: tcpdump -i igb1_vlan99 -nn host 80.239.147.29 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on igb1_vlan99, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes 22:10:55.944376 IP 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.99.1.201.59362: Flags [s], seq 3526785419, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 34928838 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:55.944659 IP 10.99.1.201.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33974369 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:56.943438 IP 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.99.1.201.59362: Flags [s], seq 3526785419, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 34929088 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:56.943652 IP 10.99.1.201.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33974619 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:58.141497 IP 10.99.1.201.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33974919 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:58.947546 IP 80.239.147.29.42200 > 10.99.1.201.59362: Flags [s], seq 3526785419, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 34929589 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:10:58.947812 IP 10.99.1.201.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33975120 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:11:01.341273 IP 10.99.1.201.59362 > 80.239.147.29.42200: Flags [S.], seq 2629731937, ack 3526785420, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 33975719 ecr 34928838,nop,wscale 7], length 0 22:11:02.955574 IP 10.99.1.201 > 80.239.147.29: ICMP echo request, id 2099, seq 1, length 64 22:11:02.977335 IP 80.239.147.29 > 10.99.1.201: ICMP echo reply, id 2099, seq 1, length 64 22:11:03.956783 IP 10.99.1.201 > 80.239.147.29: ICMP echo request, id 2099, seq 2, length 64 22:11:03.978472 IP 80.239.147.29 > 10.99.1.201: ICMP echo reply, id 2099, seq 2, length 64 22:11:04.957965 IP 10.99.1.201 > 80.239.147.29: ICMP echo request, id 2099, seq 3, length 64 22:11:04.979579 IP 80.239.147.29 > 10.99.1.201: ICMP echo reply, id 2099, seq 3, length 64 22:11:05.959203 IP 10.99.1.201 > 80.239.147.29: ICMP echo request, id 2099, seq 4, length 64 22:11:05.980780 IP 80.239.147.29 > 10.99.1.201: ICMP echo reply, id 2099, seq 4, length 64 Here is the same test from the actual VM, you see the inbound connection attempt and a reply. Then I run a ping test, which is successful: [code]root@vm1:~# tcpdump -i eth1 -nn host 80.239.147.29 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on eth1, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes 21:41:02.315127 IP 80.239.147.29.59236 > 10.99.1.201.59362: Flags [s], seq 2689225177, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 56078236 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 21:41:02.315179 IP 10.99.1.201.59362 > 80.239.147.29.59236: Flags [S.], seq 2659676728, ack 2689225178, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 55124643 ecr 56078236,nop,wscale 7], length 0 21:41:03.312092 IP 80.239.147.29.59236 > 10.99.1.201.59362: Flags [s], seq 2689225177, win 29200, options [mss 1349,sackOK,TS val 56078486 ecr 0,nop,wscale 7], length 0 21:41:03.312126 IP 10.99.1.201.59362 > 80.239.147.29.59236: Flags [S.], seq 2659676728, ack 2689225178, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 55124893 ecr 56078236,nop,wscale 7], length 0 21:41:04.712097 IP 10.99.1.201.59362 > 80.239.147.29.59236: Flags [S.], seq 2659676728, ack 2689225178, win 28960, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 55125243 ecr 56078236,nop,wscale 7], length 0 21:41:06.604111 IP 10.99.1.201 > 80.239.147.29: ICMP echo request, id 3025, seq 1, length 64 21:41:06.626188 IP 80.239.147.29 > 10.99.1.201: ICMP echo reply, id 3025, seq 1, length 64 21:41:07.605414 IP 10.99.1.201 > 80.239.147.29: ICMP echo request, id 3025, seq 2, length 64 21:41:07.627132 IP 80.239.147.29 > 10.99.1.201: ICMP echo reply, id 3025, seq 2, length 64 The commands, for ref: [code]root@vm1:~# iperf3 -s -p 59362 ----------------------------------------------------------- Server listening on 59362 ----------------------------------------------------------- ^Ciperf3: interrupt - the server has terminated root@vm1:~# ping 80.239.147.29 PING 80.239.147.29 (80.239.147.29) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 80.239.147.29: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=22.0 ms 64 bytes from 80.239.147.29: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=21.7 ms ^C --- 80.239.147.29 ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 21.741/21.912/22.084/0.226 ms[/code] [quote] You could have an asymmetrical issue where pfsense sends it on to your host on your vlan99.. But vlan99 host is sending it to a different IP as its gateway? [/quote] Yes, that is what is happening, but only when traffic is established from outside. I'm not surte what I'm doing wrong, or pfsense doing wrong or how to fix it [quote]Also it seems you have multiple threads about the same topic?? You should have the mods merge them!!! [/quote] I appreciate your help - but really, that information is already in the thread :) I have a TCPdump of my VLAN99 interface above, you can see that packets are being sent between the same IP's when it's "working" (ping test outbound) and not working (Iperf session inbound) I do not have multiple threads, but I cant help it if there's other that see about the same issue :) [quote] Have you posted your port forwards for your vpn interface? [/quote] Attaching it below. [quote] I think it would also be helpful to see the rules from the "OPT" interface assigned to the tunnel as well. [/quote] They are in my post above, when you asked if the rules where on the wrong interface. "OVPN" interface is the OPT interface assigned to the tunnel (on my pfsense box that is, I do not have access to the server which is hosted). Did you get a chance to see if you can hit the scenario yourself? This is getting interesting, some real troubleshooting :)  [/s][/s][/code][/s][/s][/s] -
My problem seems to be the same as Kroem's. I had made mine around the same time he did.
He's on 2.3.3, I'm on 2.3.4
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Ok - so I signed up for trial… Bing bang zoom working!!
I created client connection per their instructions - which are nice btw..
I then setup policy routing to send my client 192.168.9.100 out the vpn
Checked my IP! Yup going out the vpn
Setup the port forward to send that port to the same port on my box 192.168.9.100
Fired up HFS to listen on 58703
Checked if port was open on canyouseeme.org - boom Works!You can see the packet capture on the ovpn interface created, and then sniff on my lan and you can see my 192.168.9.100 box respond..
So I suggest you post up the same screenshots I posted..
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What was your "default gateway"?
Because ours isn't the VPN gateway, we only want select systems to use that tunnel.
I can make port forwarding work flawlessly if I change my default gateway.
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Ok - so I signed up for trial… Bing bang zoom working!!
I created client connection per their instructions - which are nice btw..
I then setup policy routing to send my client 192.168.9.100 out the vpn
Checked my IP! Yup going out the vpn
Setup the port forward to send that port to the same port on my box 192.168.9.100
Fired up HFS to listen on 58703
Checked if port was open on canyouseeme.org - boom Works!You can see the packet capture on the ovpn interface created, and then sniff on my lan and you can see my 192.168.9.100 box respond..
So I suggest you post up the same screenshots I posted..
As CuteBoi said, if it's just a default gateway there is no problem…
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I just tried something, for fun.
If this works for you, I would ask WHY. I would not want to allow an any to any rule on a VPN interface.
Add an Any to any rule in your VPN interface at the TOP, over your port forward entries.
Image attached.
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I just tried something, for fun.
If this works for you, I would ask WHY. I would not want to allow an any to any rule on a VPN interface.
Add an Any to any rule in your VPN interface at the TOP, over your port forward entries.
Image attached.
That will match any and send that to default gateway, never hiting the next rule (right?)
Edit. Also, I do not have any rules pointing to a gateway for traffic incoming on the OpenVPN interface, only outbound. (I tried changing the portforward rule to point at my OVPN gateway - no difference)
I did notice something that the rules do not log packets… Maybe it's not being hit at all. Im going away for a week now so will have to look later....
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Dude not the default gateway… I did it via policy routing!
Even though they did not put it in the instructions - you need to check the dont pull routes in your client settings.
"I do not have any rules pointing to a gateway for traffic incoming on the OpenVPN interface"
You wouldn't!!
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Dude not the default gateway… I did it via policy routing!
Even though they did not put it in the instructions - you need to check the dont pull routes in your client settings.
"I do not have any rules pointing to a gateway for traffic incoming on the OpenVPN interface"
You wouldn't!!
Of course I'm not pulling routes because I want to do this via policy routing, naturally.
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Anyone else got any input on this? Would it be worthwhile to maybe post a bug-report?
