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    OVPN-Server in - OVPN-Client out?

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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
                    last edited by

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

                    policy routing

                    Thanks again, works!

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                      last edited by

                      @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
                          last edited by

                          @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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