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    VM as a VPN Concentrator

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      jcpolo
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      Hey all,

      I have a pfsense instance running on a physical super micro in my datacenter currently with 20 + ipsec and open vpn tunnels terminated on it.

      What I'm trying to accomplish is setting up a pfsense vm on my vmware cluster inside the firewall strictly as a vpn concentrator. I have the VM setup, tunnels can establish and stay up… thats all fine... the problem is I cannot get traffic to route from the servers inside the network back down the tunnels properly because I think the machines are sending their traffic to their default gateway (the physical pfsense) and that pfsense doesn't know where to route the traffic...

      So the question is... how do I say any traffic destined for a network coming from the vm concentrator to go back down that tunnel instead of the edge pfsense?

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        A Former User
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        You would have to add static routes for the VPN'ed subnets to your clients or, ideally, to the physical pfSense router.

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