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    • KOMK
      KOM
      last edited by KOM

      Your settings closely match the FastestVPN pfSense guide:

      https://support.fastestvpn.com/tutorials/more-devices/pfsense

      Notable differences are you've added the Fast I/O to Custom Options when there is a checkbox for it, and they tell you to use a Send/Receive buffer of 512 while you left it at default. Fix those two issues and then try again.

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      • manjotscM
        manjotsc
        last edited by

        Just did, but same error

        Screenshot_20191016-104838_Chrome.jpg

        Vendor: HP
        Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
        Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
        Boot Method: UEFI
        24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
        FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
        CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
        Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
        4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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        • RicoR
          Rico LAYER 8 Rebel Alliance
          last edited by Rico

          The reason for the fatal error is clearly in the logs

          Oct 14 21:27:45 openvpn 71849 neither stdin nor stderr are a tty device and you have neither a controlling tty nor systemd - can't ask for 'Enter Auth Username:'. If you used --daemon, you need to use --askpass to make passphrase-protected keys work, and you can not use --auth-nocache.
          

          -Rico

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          • KOMK
            KOM
            last edited by

            Hmmm. Anything in your log file just before this line?

            Oct 14 21:27:45 openvpn 71849 Exiting due to fatal error
            

            @Rico That might just be a warning and not the actual cause of the fatal exit. His settings look good and I can't imagine how he would get into this situation.

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            • manjotscM
              manjotsc @KOM
              last edited by

              @KOM so any solution?

              Vendor: HP
              Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
              Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
              Boot Method: UEFI
              24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
              FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
              CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
              Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
              4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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              • KOMK
                KOM
                last edited by

                I'm waiting for you to answer my question.

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                • manjotscM
                  manjotsc @KOM
                  last edited by

                  @KOM
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 Exiting due to fatal error
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 neither stdin nor stderr are a tty device and you have neither a controlling tty nor systemd - can't ask for 'Enter Auth Username:'. If you used --daemon, you need to use --askpass to make passphrase-protected keys work, and you can not use --auth-nocache.
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.2o-freebsd 27 Mar 2018, LZO 2.10
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 OpenVPN 2.4.6 amd64-portbld-freebsd11.2 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [MH/RECVDA] [AEAD] built on Oct 3 2018
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 auth_user_pass_file = 'stdin'
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 pull = ENABLED
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 client = ENABLED
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 port_share_port = '[UNDEF]'
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 port_share_host = '[UNDEF]'
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 auth_token_lifetime = 0
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 auth_token_generate = DISABLED
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 auth_user_pass_verify_script_via_file = DISABLED
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 auth_user_pass_verify_script = '[UNDEF]'
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 max_routes_per_client = 256
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 max_clients = 1024
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 cf_per = 0
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 cf_max = 0
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 duplicate_cn = DISABLED
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 enable_c2c = DISABLED
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 push_ifconfig_ipv6_remote = ::
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 push_ifconfig_ipv6_local = ::/0
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 push_ifconfig_ipv6_defined = DISABLED
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 push_ifconfig_remote_netmask = 0.0.0.0
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 push_ifconfig_local = 0.0.0.0
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 push_ifconfig_defined = DISABLED
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 tmp_dir = '/tmp'
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 ccd_exclusive = DISABLED
                  Oct 16 10:47:49 openvpn 86796 client_config_dir = '[UNDEF]'

                  Vendor: HP
                  Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
                  Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
                  Boot Method: UEFI
                  24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                  FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
                  CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
                  Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
                  4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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                  • KOMK
                    KOM
                    last edited by

                    That doesn't answer my question. Were there any events that happened BEFORE the fatal error message? I can't tell if that log shows old events first or new events since they're all at the same timestamp.

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                    • manjotscM
                      manjotsc
                      last edited by

                      Ok let me check the order

                      Vendor: HP
                      Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
                      Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
                      Boot Method: UEFI
                      24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                      FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
                      CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
                      Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
                      4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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                      • manjotscM
                        manjotsc
                        last edited by

                        It's newest entry on top, followed by old ones

                        Screenshot_20191016-124249_Chrome.jpg

                        Vendor: HP
                        Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
                        Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
                        Boot Method: UEFI
                        24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                        FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
                        CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
                        Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
                        4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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                        • KOMK
                          KOM
                          last edited by KOM

                          OK, so @Rico was bang on the money.

                          Some Google-Fu shows that this error can happen if you give it a password-protected private key to use. The suggested fix is to run your key through openssl like this:

                          openssl rsa -in YourPrivateKey.pem -out NewPrivateKey.pem
                          
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                          • manjotscM
                            manjotsc @KOM
                            last edited by

                            @KOM how do I do that?

                            Vendor: HP
                            Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
                            Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
                            Boot Method: UEFI
                            24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                            FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
                            CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
                            Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
                            4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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                            • KOMK
                              KOM
                              last edited by

                              Never mind. That advice only applies if you were making a private key with password-protection. It doesn't apply for a client-connection to a public VPN where you don't use a client cert.

                              This is really weird. The error message is complaining as if either you need a user/pass and didn't supply one, or it doesn't want a user/pass and you did supply one.

                              What version of pfSense is this?

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                              • manjotscM
                                manjotsc @KOM
                                last edited by

                                @KOM 2.4.4-RELEASE-p3 (amd64)
                                built on Wed May 15 18:53:44 EDT 2019
                                FreeBSD 11.2-RELEASE-p10

                                Vendor: HP
                                Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
                                Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
                                Boot Method: UEFI
                                24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                                FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
                                CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
                                Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
                                4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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                                • KOMK
                                  KOM
                                  last edited by

                                  Strange. And what happens when you delete all that and try with your other provider, PureVPN? Exact same symptoms and error?

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                                  • manjotscM
                                    manjotsc @KOM
                                    last edited by

                                    @KOM ya same thing

                                    Vendor: HP
                                    Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
                                    Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
                                    Boot Method: UEFI
                                    24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                                    FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
                                    CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
                                    Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
                                    4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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                                    • KOMK
                                      KOM
                                      last edited by

                                      It's suspicious that it fails the same way with a different config and provider.

                                      I don't have any other suggestions, sorry.

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                                      • manjotscM
                                        manjotsc
                                        last edited by manjotsc

                                        I found the problem and it's working now, my pfblocker has the same subnet ip as the purevpn was trying to obtain. Only issue now is when I am connect to openvpn, the dns stops working ex: youtube.com when typed, but if I type the ip of youtube "172.217.13.206" manually on address bar it works.

                                        Vendor: HP
                                        Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
                                        Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
                                        Boot Method: UEFI
                                        24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                                        FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
                                        CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
                                        Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
                                        4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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                                        • KOMK
                                          KOM
                                          last edited by

                                          Funny you should mention that. I just got an SG-1100 and was configuring it last night. I have 3 VPN connections defined, and when I bring one up in particular, everything dies. I also have pfB loaded. I was about to spend time today researching the problem but you may have just solved it for me.

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                                          • manjotscM
                                            manjotsc @KOM
                                            last edited by

                                            @KOM so did it solve the problem?

                                            Vendor: HP
                                            Version: P01 Ver. 02.50
                                            Release Date: Wed Jul 17 2024
                                            Boot Method: UEFI
                                            24.11-RELEASE (amd64)
                                            FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT
                                            CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7500 CPU @ 3.40GHz
                                            Current: 3606 MHz, Max: 3400 MHz
                                            4 CPUs : 1 package(s) x 4 core(s)

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