@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.

On a Windows laptop you can indeed just use file explorer (smb) to connect to other Windows hosts and view their file shares.
You may need to enter the remote IPs directly. If you are passing a dns search domain to clients and pSense as a DNS server they may be able to resolve LAN side hostnames if pfSense is a the DHCP server there.
The hosts you are connecting to need to allow smb connections from the OpenVPN tunnel subnet of course.

Anything you can do from the Android phone locally on WIFI should also work over OpenVPN.
I don't know what you are trying there. I'm not sure I've ever tried to access smb fileshares on a phone. There may well be an app for that.

Steve

Thanks for all your help your comment about the windows firewall got me to look at it a different way. Turns out during one of my previous attempts to get internet to my VPN clients (a different issue not this one) I messed with some other firewall settings and pushed all of the VPN traffic out the WAN interface which worked fine for getting my clients internet access but caused issues when I tried to access the LAN. I removed that and now with the push route command my clients are able to access the Internet and my LAN

That's using a Netburst Xeon right? It's not going to be fast. I don't have much to compare it with but waaay back when I was running a P4 2.8 it was good for ~300Mbps.
I would expect that pass 400Mbps using firewall and NAT only but maybe not much more.

Try it and see.

Steve

Your rules force all traffic out the gateway.

rules.png

And the rules below that make no sense, because rules are evaluated top down, first rule to trigger wins, no other rules are evaluated.

So your rule sending traffic out your gateway is any any.. When would there be traffic that does trigger that rules.

When would there be traffic to ! private, that does not match the rule above it any any?

If you want your clients to talk to pfsense IP.. Where do you allow that? You block talking to pfsense on 443, then your next rule says go out the vpn.. How does vpn have access to pfsense vlan30 interface for example?

@n1kasus
Посмотрите вот тут

https://www.thin.kiev.ua/router-os/50-pfsense/680-pptp-clien-wan-pfsense-20.html

Пост старый , но идея ясна
Тоже самое предложил Dимыч

Use policy routing
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/routing/directing-traffic-with-policy-routing.html
https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/book/multiwan/policy-routing-configuration.html

@CNLiberal said in Solution for Multicast Over Tunnel:

haven't found decent OpenVPN software for the Mac yet.

On this point, the client linked on this page from the OpenVPN Access server docs, in my experience, works fine with an OpenVPN server on pfSense. Just import the standard config. I have not tried this with a tap connection. I used the 2.7 version, and haven't tested the 3.1 beta. The page also mentions alternate clients.
https://openvpn.net/vpn-server-resources/connecting-to-access-server-with-macos/

@jimp Yes would love this feature as wel. Tested it and works really fast en easy to setup. Timeline even for beta release would be great.
OpenVpn has so much overhead, and just does not meet the speed requirements with low(er) end hardware.

Thanks, I will look into setting up OpenVPN instead.

All of those links take me to a page that requires login on aliexpress.

Is there any reason the official netgate solution wouldn't work for you?

I'm not sure if the SG-3100 would work for the home, office and guest setup using the LAN and OPT1 interfaces. Not sure if the RT-AC87u setup as an access point with a separate guest login would prevent the guest users from accessing the rest of the LAN it's connected to. My feeling is it wouldn't so you might need another interface and AP for the guest if that's the case (SG-5100).

If price is an issue, I hear good things about the apu2 platform.

I could not find my previous post, I thought it was not posted properly, now I found it but can not remove this one... please Admin, remove it and pardon my mistake