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    OVPN-Server in - OVPN-Client out?

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    • johnpozJ
      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
      last edited by johnpoz

      Ok... Then do that.. Not sure why the question.. If you route all your traffic out your vpn, then all clients going through pfsense would use the vpn.. Be it local clients or vpn clients, be they from the public side or the local side..

      You just need to make sure you have your outbound nat correct for your vpn tunnel, etc.. If this works how it should when your external.. Then it would/should work the exact same way when your internal..

      Here I turned off my phone cellular (to make sure coming from lan side of pfsense, only connected to my wifi) - connected to my vpn instance that forces all traffic out my vpn.. Can see that my client is connected from my lan side..

      connected.jpg

      Then on my phone checked what my IP was to the public internet - and its my vps IP that I have vpn client setup to for pfsense.. I routed my vpn users out this via policy route on the vpn interface rules..

      whatsmyip.png

      If something is not working how you want, your going to have to show us what your doing or not doing in your setup... This took all of two seconds to change my config to do this.. I normally do not route traffic from vpn connections out my vpn.. I had to create an outbound nat to nat the vpn tunnel network.

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      • Bob.DigB
        Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @johnpoz
        last edited by Bob.Dig

        @johnpoz said in OVPN-Server in - OVPN-Client out?:

        Ok... Then do that.. Not sure why the question.. If you route all your traffic out your vpn, then all clients going through pfsense would use the vpn..

        Sure but I don't want that... like I said before.

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        • johnpozJ
          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
          last edited by johnpoz

          What do you want?? You stated you want your vpn clients to use your vpn... Then do that! What are you not understanding?

          Policy route in your vpn interface!

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          • Bob.DigB
            Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @johnpoz
            last edited by Bob.Dig

            @johnpoz said in OVPN-Server in - OVPN-Client out?:

            What are you not understanding?

            Sometimes, your reading comprehension.

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            • johnpozJ
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
              last edited by johnpoz

              vpnpolicyroute.jpg

              What do you not get about policy routing?

              Just like any other interface!

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              • Bob.DigB
                Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @johnpoz
                last edited by

                Never looked there. Had to create the outbound NAT, like you had said before and it works like a charm, thank you...

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                • Bob.DigB
                  Bob.Dig LAYER 8
                  last edited by Bob.Dig

                  Now I have a new poblem. The email app on the phone can't connect to my local email server anymore. When I am switching the gateway in the OpenVPN tab back to WAN, it will work again, although the email-server is generally not reachable from the internet for clients. Any help would be appreciated.

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                  • johnpozJ
                    johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                    last edited by johnpoz

                    Well you wouldn't of switched it to wan for the gateway, or that shouldn't of allowed access either. If you would of switched it back to not policy routing and just gateway as * should of worked..

                    Create a rule in your vpn tab that allows access to your local networks.. This is just basic policy routing..

                    pinginglocal.jpg

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                    • Bob.DigB
                      Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @johnpoz
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                      @johnpoz said in OVPN-Server in - OVPN-Client out?:

                      policy routing

                      Thanks again, works!

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                      • johnpozJ
                        johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                        @Bob-Dig said in OVPN-Server in - OVPN-Client out?:

                        works!

                        Well yeah, its simple policy routing.. Which why my confusion to your problem in the first place

                        I use policy routing for that Nord-vpn

                        When someone says they are doing something, my bad for thinking they understood what that meant and what they were doing.. So its not "reading comprehension" to why I was confused to what you wanted ;)

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                        • Bob.DigB
                          Bob.Dig LAYER 8 @johnpoz
                          last edited by Bob.Dig

                          @johnpoz Sure. That rules-tab for OpenVPN is looking so different than the others. But it works like the others. I guess you don't have to assign the interface(s) and that's why it is looking different.
                          With no networking background like me it is only learning by doing, not by studying or understanding. ^^

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                          • johnpozJ
                            johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                            @Bob-Dig said in OVPN-Server in - OVPN-Client out?:

                            only learning by doing, not by studying or understanding.

                            Ah the click random shit and hope it does what you want methodology of networking ;)

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