VPN (Surfshark) not working after reboot
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I do a nightly reboot of my pfSense via cron. This is needed because there is a router in front of pfSense, which will get new dynamic IPs before that at every night and pfSense can't cope with that, especially IPv6 and DDNS.
Every morning I can't browse the internet. Only after manually clicking the "restart openvpn service" button next to each tunnel, it is working again.
Under Gateways the tunnels are sometimes shown as online and on other mornings they are not, doesn't matter anyways, it is not working on its own.
- Anyone has an idea, why this is happening?
- Is there another cron job I could run to only restart the tunnels at a later time?
2.5.1-RELEASE
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Some logs added:
when I reboot pfSense (not working):
Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 Initialization Sequence Completed Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkup ovpnc2 1500 1656 10.8.8.7 255.255.255.0 init Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 ERROR: FreeBSD route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 1 Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 /sbin/ifconfig ovpnc2 10.8.8.7 10.8.8.1 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.0 up Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 ioctl(TUNSIFMODE): Device busy (errno=16) Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 TUN/TAP device /dev/tun2 opened Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 TUN/TAP device ovpnc2 exists previously, keep at program end Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:7: block-outside-dns (2.5.1) Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 Options error: option 'redirect-gateway' cannot be used in this context ([PUSH-OPTIONS]) Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 Options error: option 'dhcp-option' cannot be used in this context ([PUSH-OPTIONS]) Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 Options error: option 'dhcp-option' cannot be used in this context ([PUSH-OPTIONS])When I restart the service (working):
Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 Initialization Sequence Completed Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory -- use the auth-nocache option to prevent this Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkup ovpnc2 1500 1656 10.8.8.11 255.255.255.0 init Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 ERROR: FreeBSD route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 1 Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 /sbin/ifconfig ovpnc2 10.8.8.11 10.8.8.1 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.0 up Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 TUN/TAP device /dev/tun2 opened Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 TUN/TAP device ovpnc2 exists previously, keep at program end Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 Options error: Unrecognized option or missing or extra parameter(s) in [PUSH-OPTIONS]:7: block-outside-dns (2.5.1) Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 Options error: option 'redirect-gateway' cannot be used in this context ([PUSH-OPTIONS]) Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 Options error: option 'dhcp-option' cannot be used in this context ([PUSH-OPTIONS]) Jun 17 13:48:05 openvpn 57752 Options error: option 'dhcp-option' cannot be used in this context ([PUSH-OPTIONS]) Jun 17 13:48:03 openvpn 57752 [de-nue-v006.prod.surfshark.com] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]95.111.253.65:1194The key-difference seems to be:
Jun 17 13:38:42 openvpn 93742 ioctl(TUNSIFMODE): Device busy (errno=16) -
@bob-dig said in VPN (Surfshark) not working after reboot:
I do a nightly reboot of my pfSense via cron.
So I added another cron job (rc.reload_all) after that one and this does it for me. All in all a little bit to complicated for my taste.
