@gertjan said in NordVPN makes internet speeds very slow on PfSense.:

hardware encryption

Thank you for your reply! I believe N*rdVPN doesn't allow to choose from a list of cyphers. AES-256-GCM is the encryption algorithm I use. Hardware Crypto is availible:
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For now, I'm changing my desktop's local IP to disable the VPN if I need high speed like you said. 180-200 Mbps is still enough for browsing the internet and even gaming, video streaming, but it sucks that 80% of my internet speed goes to VPN. I originally chose NordVPN because they were recommended in many forums and they had a nice deal VPN + Password Manager and Data Leak Scanner, but now I think about switching to PIA.

@stephenw10 I deleted the WireGuard tunnel then I set it up all over again. Done the same thing at VPS. Rebooted remote VM and pfSense and it started working.

I have no idea what happened before but I thanks you for all the support you provided!!

Thanks a lot

:-)

kind regards

@jeffreyn said in No Clients Can Connect To OpenVPN Due to CRL Expiry:

@jimp I applied the patch when it was released. I'm reading the release notes for 23.01 and see Issue #13424 has been addressed in the new version. Do I need to do anything like remove the patch before or after I upgrade? Or does everything take care of itself?

You do not need to do anything with the patch after upgrading. You can delete the entry from the system patches package.

@viragomann
I see. This is all still ridiculously new to me. I will make adjustments.

Yeah still not working. I'm about to give up on this.

I created a small tool luckman212/stv to help make it a little easier to debug states. In case it's useful to anyone else.

@mrDick гляньте тут - https://forum.netgate.com/topic/131401/%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%88%D1%80%D1%83%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D1%8F-openvpn/75 настроено не по феншую, а переделать не получается. Но сколько лет работает на 3 офиса.

UPD по новым требованиям отключите сжатие и поставьте алгоритм на 512

UPD2 тьфу, забыл. Может уже и не актуально, но в Keenetic в ПЕРВУЮ ОЧЕРЕДЬ отрубите свой OpenVPN от других интерфейсов через CLI (там мануал есть в их хелпе), иначе эта пакость будет туннель пихать и в WI-Fi, даже если там гостевая сеть настроена!!!

@ma0f97 Has no one an idea?

Make sure you have the Don't pull routes option checked in your OpenVPN Client configuration:
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-Rico

@mer Thanks for the reply! Your comments got me to thinking which can be dangerous ;-)

I figured out the problem. It has to do with little Windows 10 app that the commercial VPN provides. This app resides in the system tray on the right side of the task bar in Windows 10. The app is used to connect and disconnect from the VPN. With your comments, I had the thought to try to figure out what DNS server windows was using when connected to the VPN and when not connected to the VPN. With a quick google search I found the Windows 10 command prompt nslookup command. Simply entering "nslookup" in a windows command prompt will return the DNS server being used. In my case, when I wasn't connected to the VPN, it returned the ip of my pfSense router. When I was connected to the VPN it returned an ip of a DNS server that belongs to my VPN provider. It seems that everytime you connect to the VPN service using their Windows 10 app, they change your DNS server address to their DNS server. I tried manually changing it back to the ip of my pfSense router but that didn't work when connected to the VPN - in that case I broke internet access altogether and couldn't connect to anything. When connected to the VPN, Windows wasn't able to resolve the local ip of my pfSense router. The solution will have to be to stop using the app provided by the VPN provider so that the DNS server that Windows uses stays pointing to my pfSense router. I had previously setup a gateway associated wiht the commercial VPN provider in my pfSense router. My solution will be to configure pfSense to route traffic from my Windows 10 through the VPN gateway when I want to use the VPN from my Windows 10 pc. Sort of a pain b/c I will have to log in to pfSense every time I want to use (or not use) the VPN. But in this scenario I can use the https://server1name.domain_name.tld paradigm to access my local services from my Windows 10 pc whether or not its WAN traffic is being routed through the VPN. This is because my Windows 10 pc will always be configured to use pfSense for domain name resolution.

@djohnson
This is a late reply but it may assist someone else in future.
The VOIP audio traffic (RTP) require separate UDP ports to be open. The exact range will vary depending on your VoIP system.

Hence, if the RTP ports are not open, you can experience a "working" system, but with a complete lack of audio.

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.

@noplan said in PFsense 2.5 RC OpenVPN/ExpressVPN problem:

@trikki69 said in PFsense 2.5 RC OpenVPN/ExpressVPN problem:

so your problem is now solved with this

added this to my advanced custom options within the OpenVPN client setup:
;pull-filter ignore redirect-gateway;

brNP

Yep - works great now, no thanks to ExpressVPN support.