@stephenw10
Answer, hopefully in order...

Version is 2.5.2 on the Azure VM and 21.05-RELEASE (amd64) on the 5100s

OVPN is site-to-site, pre-shared key, UDP on IPV4 only, Layer 3. On the remote server there is a point-to-site server (for use as a remote internet gateway). It's for travel use but nobody's travelling so there are no connections.

Latency is 27-32 ms, WAN Azure to WAN local; 100-130 ms to the other sites from WAN local.

I only have one local device so I haven't tried to replicate here. I could spin up a Hyper-V guest but not now, I am currently working on alternative method, most likely a Linux server on the local LAN, running OpenVPN as a server and NAT port forward Linux server. We are up interactively but backups through the tunnels are an issue.

Not an expert regarding state tables so I wouldn't know what to look for. I can try clearing the state tables after the trouble begins to see if that reset avoids a reboot to restore WAN performance. Would that provide useful information?

We're not running IPSEC now. We were, but IPSEC failed after a recent upgrade. We switched to OpenVPN. I have read that the IPSEC issue has been resolved but haven't switched back.

One more observation. We do have a point-to-site server running locally. There is one user, a Synology raid device that phones home and stays connected 24x7. It is used as an off-site backup device accepting snapshot replication and file share backups. It's been running without issues. It seems to be the site-to-site tunnels that are tripping us up, on the client-side.

@viragomann omg facepalm yep, you're totally right. Thanks. I know what I did now. When I initially set up the OpenVPN client I entered the wrong credentials (and didn't realize it) so it didn't appear as an option when I was initially assigning an interface so I arbitrarily selected em2 not knowing it should have said something like ovpnc1.

Went back just now and changed it. Gateway shows as up. And was able to select it in my firewall rule. Beautiful. Thank you very much.

I have the similar issue after upgrading to 21.02.2 version on my Negate SG-5100. Prior to upgrade all OpenVPN connections were working fine. After upgrade only one VPN connection is working, other is connected but no traffic passing. On disabling the VPN on connection 2, data traffic starts but not on VPN.

Not sure if it's a bug generated by pfsense update.

@belvac Just a suggestion, some of my clients use Nordvpn with pfsense to bypass region restrictions. As you know Cyberghost bought by Israeli agency. Also Cyberghost fee is almost the same as Nordvpn (3 year plan for $3).

Anyway please take a look at this guide first:
https://support.nordvpn.com/Connectivity/Router/1626958942/pfSense-2-5-Setup-with-NordVPN.htm

Second could you download Cyberghost configuration file, I prefer TCP Switzerland and copy paste here the whole text content of Cyberghost configuration file.
I don't promise anything but I'll try to help you.

openvpn.txt

Log kept getting flagged as spam, so it is attached.

If anyone else hits this, netgate support found I was using "openvpn" in the outbound NAT rules as the interface. Specifying this to the VPN Client interface resolved the issues.

Musste leider feststellen, dass "meine" Lösung wohl nur eine gewisse Zeit funktioniert. Irgendwann scheint es so, dass Windows den "ersten" DNS-Server nicht mehr nutzt und daher interne Namen nicht mehr auflöst.
Habe daher vorerst auf IPs umgestellt.

@josh-hall said in DNS Resolver (unbound) fails after reboot unless manually restarted:

The cron package doesn't actually use crontab

Look again ;)

The cron package maintains (== creates) the system file /etc/crontab.

PHP is used to create the "config file" (pfSense, the GUI, is mostly a huge FreeBSD + FreeBSD processes config file editior ;) )

Btw : what about this option :
Do not use cron, but install the package

f31ee9d5-12b6-42f4-ade4-387d50fba0dc-image.png
Btw : why creating something in /home/ ?
You login using SSH ( or console if you have to ) using admin, which has root rights. So, put everything you make yourself over there.
Like

/root/unbound_restart.sh

and

chmod +x /root/unbound_restart.sh

What about this solution :
Install this package.

8906ed95-2236-41e6-a738-e846638a3f10-image.png

Now you have a new option in the Services menu.
Choose type "Shellcmd" and point it to your /root/unbound_restart.sh script file.

@boot, this will get executed.

I'm using the Shellcmd package myself :

36dddc7d-cbe9-4c3a-9338-a236221b5105-image.png

As you can see, the Patches package is already adding a line for itself.
This way, patches get checked when the system boots.

I create a "socket" for FreeRadius so I can ready FreeRadius statistics. The socket is placed in the package folder, so it will get wiped on any Freeradius package update.

I map the connected keyboard to the correct language - for some reasons there are only French keyboards here around me.

Is this just a dupe of your other ticket?
https://forum.netgate.com/topic/160507/pfsense-and-openvpn

IMO it's impossible to tell active directory domain member to not look for dns record of domain name.

@hieroglyph With an established s2s vpn you could connect remotely to the server side of the vpn and access both sites with one connection, concurrently.

But this adds unecessary points of failure. And since these are home networks, you could be better off with two openvn servers listening at each site , and connect to each as needed.
A site to site vpn could also co exist, so you don't have to do anything when at home.

of course you can have it all. S2s, two openvpn listening at both sites, and access to everywhere no matter where you connect.

Happy tweaking.