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    • A
      amires
      last edited by

      @jimp:

      @amires:

      Actually I have tried it both without a gateway and with VPN gateway and none did help. I just removed the gateway just to be safe.
      I also removed 10.4.0.1 as monitoring ip and used 8.8.8.8 instead. I am waiting to see if the problem still exist.

      Depending on the steps you took in between attempts that may not have been a relevant test. You can use the gateway for the monitor IP address, that's what it does by default. Leave the monitor IP address field blank. Setting something else may be part of the overall issue (though it works fine here).

      This may not be relevant to you, but to others: If you do need to use a DNS server across the VPN, do not set the gateway on the DNS server list, but add the DNS server IP address/32 to the remote network list of your VPN client. That way OpenVPN will manage the route. But to reiterate, that is NOT necessary if the DNS server is directly connected or especially if it is your VPN gateway.

      Thanks for your help. When I leave the monitoring IP blank then pfsense will use locally assigned VPN IP as the monitoring IP which is not a reliable way to check availability of the link. I need to monitor other side of the link which is 10.4.0.1 therefore I am forced to either manually enter 10.4.0.1 as monitoring IP or use a different pingable public IP but then I wouldn't be able to monitor RTT of the VPN link.

      If it helps here are the relevant VPN routes from my routing table when I am using 10.4.0.1 as both DNS and monitoring IP.

      Destination        Gateway            Flags    Netif Expire
      10.4.0.0/16        10.4.0.1            UGS      ovpnc1
      10.4.0.1            10.4.x.y            UGHS    ovpnc1
      10.4.x.y              link#9              UHS      lo0

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        cosmoxl
        last edited by

        Well, I tested two concurrent OVPN clients connected, both with alternate IP monitored, and stopping and reconnecting one of them.

        This would have caused a problem (ifconfig and/or gateway monitoring saying gateway was down) when I was testing 2.4 a few months ago but didn't cause a problem today.

        I'm at a loss, because I know others are still having problems.

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        • A
          amires
          last edited by

          This morning the mentioned errors appeared again. OpenVPN wont connect and I had the following errors in the logs :

          /sbin/ifconfig ovpnc1 10.4.4.12 10.4.0.1 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.0.0 up
          FreeBSD ifconfig failed: external program exited with error status: 1
          Exiting due to fatal error

          I checked the routing table and I noticed that I have the following VPN route  :

          10.4.0.1          10.4.4.12          UGHS        lo0

          I tried manually deleting the route :

          route del  10.4.0.1
          route: writing to routing socket: Address already in use
          del host 10.4.0.1 fib 0: gateway uses the same route

          I restarted my pfsense box at this point. After restarting everything was ok again.

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          • jimpJ
            jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
            last edited by

            @amires:

            /sbin/ifconfig ovpnc1 10.4.4.12 10.4.0.1 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.0.0 up
            FreeBSD ifconfig failed: external program exited with error status: 1
            Exiting due to fatal error

            I tried manually deleting the route :
            route del  10.4.0.1
            route: writing to routing socket: Address already in use
            del host 10.4.0.1 fib 0: gateway uses the same route

            If that happens again, post the entire contents of "netstat -rn" and "ifconfig -a" and "ps uxaww | grep openvpn" before attempting to delete the route. Something else must still be running/using that address.

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            • A
              amires
              last edited by

              @jimp:

              If that happens again, post the entire contents of "netstat -rn" and "ifconfig -a" and "ps uxaww | grep openvpn" before attempting to delete the route. Something else must still be running/using that address.

              It happended again and it won't connect anymore. I am posting below the information your requested.

              netstat -rn

              Destination        Gateway            Flags     Netif Expire
              default            ADSL_GATEWAY       UGS      pppoe0
              10.4.0.1           10.4.4.12          UGHS        lo0
              8.8.8.8            192.168.1.1        UGHS        em0
              127.0.0.1          link#4             UH          lo0
              172.16.0.0/30      link#1             U           re0
              172.16.0.2         link#1             UHS         lo0
              ADSL_GATEWAY       link#8             UH       pppoe0
              ADSL_IP            link#8             UHS         lo0
              192.168.1.0/24     link#2             U           em0
              192.168.1.2        link#2             UHS         lo0
              192.168.2.0/24     link#3             U           em1
              192.168.2.1        link#3             UHS         lo0
              8.8.4.4            pppoe0             UHS      pppoe0
              

              ifconfig -a

              re0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                      options=8209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                      hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                      inet6 fe80::6666:b3ff:fe03:5569%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
                      inet 172.16.0.2 netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 172.16.0.3
                      nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
                      status: active
              em0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                      options=4209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                      hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                      inet6 fe80::7254:d2ff:feab:20a6%em0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
                      inet 192.168.1.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
                      nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
                      status: active
              em1: flags=8943 <up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                      options=4209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                      hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                      inet6 fe80::7254:d2ff:feab:20a7%em1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
                      inet 192.168.2.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
                      nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                      status: active
              lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
                      options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
                      inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
                      inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
                      nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: lo
              enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
                      nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: enc
              pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33160
                      groups: pflog
              pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500
                      groups: pfsync
                      syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 defer: on
                      syncok: 1
              ovpnc1: flags=8010 <pointopoint,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                      options=80000 <linkstate>nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: tun openvpn
              pppoe0: flags=88d1 <up,pointopoint,running,noarp,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1492
                      inet ADSL_IP --> ADSL_GATEWAY  netmask 0xffffffff
                      inet6 xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%pppoe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8
                      nd6 options=21<performnud,auto_linklocal></performnud,auto_linklocal></up,pointopoint,running,noarp,simplex,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></linkstate></pointopoint,multicast></promisc></performnud,auto_linklocal></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso></up,broadcast,running,promisc,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,vlan_hwtso></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>
              

              ps uxaww | grep openvpn

              root    31186   0.0  0.0  14728   2432  0  S+   22:21     0:00.00 grep openvpn
              
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                jarrad
                last edited by

                I have the same issue.

                I even went into System -> Routing and deleted the disabled gateways from there that were no longer active after removing the OpenVPN Server.

                As follows:

                netstat -rn
                Routing tables
                
                Internet:
                Destination        Gateway            Flags     Netif Expire
                default            10.1.1.1           UGS         re0
                8.8.8.8            172.21.34.53       UGHS        lo0
                10.1.1.0/24        link#1             U           re0
                10.1.1.254         link#1             UHS         lo0
                10.8.0.2           10.8.0.1           UGHS        lo0
                61.9.242.33        10.1.1.1           UGHS        re0
                127.0.0.1          link#4             UH          lo0
                172.21.34.0/23     172.21.34.1        UGS      ovpnc2
                172.21.34.1        link#8             UH       ovpnc2
                172.21.34.53       link#8             UHS         lo0
                192.168.1.0/24     link#2             U           re1
                192.168.1.1        link#2             UHS         lo0
                198.18.0.1         172.21.34.53       UGHS        lo0
                198.18.0.2         172.21.34.53       UGHS        lo0
                208.67.220.220     172.21.34.53       UGHS        lo0
                208.67.222.222     172.21.34.53       UGHS        lo0
                
                Internet6:
                Destination                       Gateway                       Flags     Netif Expire
                ::1                               link#4                        UH          lo0
                fe80::%re0/64                     link#1                        U           re0
                fe80::428d:5cff:fe52:d947%re0     link#1                        UHS         lo0
                fe80::%re1/64                     link#2                        U           re1
                fe80::1:1%re1                     link#2                        UHS         lo0
                fe80::%lo0/64                     link#4                        U           lo0
                fe80::1%lo0                       link#4                        UHS         lo0
                fe80::428d:5cff:fe52:d947%ovpnc2  link#8                        UHS         lo0
                
                ps uxaww | grep openvpn
                root    71827   0.0  0.2  20332  6320  -  Ss   Tue18     18:03.62 /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --config /var/etc/openv
                pn/client2.conf
                root    89326   0.0  0.1  14728  2312  0  S+   06:43      0:00.00 grep openvpn
                
                ifconfig -a
                re0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=8209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate>ether 40:8d:5c:52:d9:47
                        hwaddr 40:8d:5c:52:d9:47
                        inet6 fe80::428d:5cff:fe52:d947%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 
                        inet 10.1.1.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.1.1.255 
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
                        status: active
                re1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=8209b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate>ether 40:8d:5c:52:d9:45
                        hwaddr 40:8d:5c:52:d9:45
                        inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 
                        inet6 fe80::1:1%re1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                        status: active
                enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: enc 
                lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
                        options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
                        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 
                        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: lo 
                pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33160
                        groups: pflog 
                pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500
                        groups: pfsync 
                        syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 defer: on
                        syncok: 1
                ovpnc2: flags=8051 <up,pointopoint,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                        options=80000 <linkstate>inet6 fe80::428d:5cff:fe52:d947%ovpnc2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x8 
                        inet 172.21.34.53 --> 172.21.34.1  netmask 0xfffffe00 
                        nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: tun openvpn 
                        Opened by PID 71827</performnud,auto_linklocal></linkstate></up,pointopoint,running,multicast></promisc></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></performnud,auto_linklocal></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,wol_magic,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>
                

                I currently have no OpenVPN server configured as Ive done these commands.

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                  unclebacon
                  last edited by

                  I am also having the same issue.

                  netstat -rn

                  Routing tables
                  
                  Internet:
                  Destination        Gateway            Flags     Netif Expire
                  default            WAN1_GW            UGS        bge1
                  8.8.4.4            WAN2_GW            UGHS       bge2
                  8.8.8.8            WAN1_GW            UGHS       bge1
                  9.9.9.9            WAN2_GW            UGHS       bge2
                  10.4.0.1           10.4.28.44         UGHS        lo0
                  127.0.0.1          link#4             UH          lo0
                  WAN1_RANGE/24      link#2             U          bge1
                  192.168.0.0/22     link#1             U          bge0
                  WAN1_IP            link#2             UHS         lo0
                  192.168.1.1        link#1             UHS         lo0
                  WAN2_RANGE/27      link#3             U          bge2
                  WAN2_IP            link#3             UHS         lo0
                  208.67.220.220     WAN1_GW            UGHS       bge1
                  208.67.222.222     WAN2_GW            UGHS       bge2
                  

                  ifconfig -a

                  bge0: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                          options=c009b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,linkstate>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                          hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                          inet6 xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
                          inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 192.168.3.255
                          nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
                          status: active
                  bge1: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                          options=8009b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                          hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                          inet6 xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%bge1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
                          inet WAN1_IP netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 255.255.255.255
                          nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,master>)
                          status: active
                  bge2: flags=8843 <up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                          options=8009b <rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate>ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                          hwaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
                          inet6 xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx%bge2 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
                          inet WAN2_IP netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 255.255.255.255
                          nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,master>)
                          status: active
                  lo0: flags=8049 <up,loopback,running,multicast>metric 0 mtu 16384
                          options=600003 <rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6>inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
                          inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
                          inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
                          nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: lo
                  enc0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1536
                          nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: enc
                  pflog0: flags=100 <promisc>metric 0 mtu 33160
                          groups: pflog
                  pfsync0: flags=0<> metric 0 mtu 1500
                          groups: pfsync
                          syncpeer: 224.0.0.240 maxupd: 128 defer: on
                          syncok: 1
                  ovpnc1: flags=8010 <pointopoint,multicast>metric 0 mtu 1500
                          options=80000 <linkstate>nd6 options=21 <performnud,auto_linklocal>groups: tun openvpn</performnud,auto_linklocal></linkstate></pointopoint,multicast></promisc></performnud,auto_linklocal></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,rxcsum_ipv6,txcsum_ipv6></up,loopback,running,multicast></full-duplex,master></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex,master></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast></full-duplex></performnud,auto_linklocal></rxcsum,txcsum,vlan_mtu,vlan_hwtagging,vlan_hwcsum,vlan_hwtso,linkstate></up,broadcast,running,simplex,multicast>
                  

                  ps uxaww | grep openvpn

                  root 24877   0.0  0.0  14728  2432  0  S+   21:21      0:00.00 grep openvpn
                  

                  1. Is the VPN interface assigned/enabled under the Interfaces menu? Yes.
                  2. Does the VPN gateway have an alternate monitoring IP address? No.
                  3. Is there a DNS server set to use the VPN gateway? No.
                  4. Are there any manually-defined static routes set to the use VPN gateway? No.
                  5. Any dynamic routing protocols using the VPN? No.

                  I currently have 1 AirVPN client configured and no OpenVPN servers configured. Hope this helps.

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                    jarrad
                    last edited by

                    An update from me.

                    I would say that the fault lays here:

                    Any OpenVPN gateways under System -> Routing that were present with an alternate monitoring IP prior to 2.4.1 are the cause of the issue.

                    I went through and deleted the following:
                    OpenVPN Server, Interface, CA, Certs, Gateways

                    I am now able to

                    1. Stop and start the OpenVPN server correctly without having to reboot
                    2. Have alternate IP monitoring respond correctly via dpinger.
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                      RHLinux
                      last edited by

                      @jarrad:

                      An update from me.

                      I would say that the fault lays here:

                      Any OpenVPN gateways under System -> Routing that were present with an alternate monitoring IP prior to 2.4.1 are the cause of the issue.

                      I went through and deleted the following:
                      OpenVPN Server, Interface, CA, Certs, Gateways

                      I am now able to

                      1. Stop and start the OpenVPN server correctly without having to reboot
                      2. Have alternate IP monitoring respond correctly via dpinger.

                      That is good to know.  I also cleared all the above but still had some issues.  I also had an alternative monitoring IP address (monitoring the other end of the link) and had this issue only when upgrading.  I ended up changing the IP address of the link and rebooted the system.  This seemed to fix the problem.

                      RHLinux

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                        amires
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                        I have clean installed pfSense 2.4.1 and made all the necessary configs all by hand and still have this issue. I am going to disable ip monitoring
                        for OpenVPN and see if that helps.

                        I found out that is not just a WAN IP change that triggers this, there are other circumstances involved. I manually forced WAN IP change many
                        times and OpenVPN client recovered successfully every time. So it is not just a WAN IP change that triggers this.

                        By the way I am not using OpenVPN Server, it is the OpenVPN Client that I have issues with.

                        UPDATE : I haven't had any more issues since I have disabled gateway monitoring on OpenVPN Client interface. My pfSense machine has been
                        up for 3 days now without any kind of problem.

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                          jarrad
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                          I spoke too soon.

                          It broke as soon as I added a second client.

                          I've since rebuilt it again from scratch and now the server won't assign itself an IP so routing internally is broken but clients can communicate.

                          This also coincided with the upgrade to 2.4.2.

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                            unclebacon
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                            Still having this same issue. It seems to happen upon any manual changes to the routes or if OpenVPN loses it's connection and attempts to reestablish it, giving these errors:

                            Nov 30 10:16:28	openvpn	89059	TUN/TAP device ovpnc1 exists previously, keep at program end
                            Nov 30 10:16:28	openvpn	89059	TUN/TAP device /dev/tun1 opened
                            Nov 30 10:16:28	openvpn	89059	do_ifconfig, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
                            Nov 30 10:16:28	openvpn	89059	/sbin/ifconfig ovpnc1 10.4.28.44 10.4.0.1 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.0.0 up
                            Nov 30 10:16:28	openvpn	89059	FreeBSD ifconfig failed: external program exited with error status: 1
                            Nov 30 10:16:28	openvpn	89059	Exiting due to fatal error
                            

                            It appears the only way to fix it (albeit temporarily) is to reboot and wait for it to happen once more.

                            10.4.0.1           10.4.28.44         UGHS        lo0
                            

                            This is the leftover route that seems to be causing the issue, and any attempt to remove it manually gives:

                            [2.4.2-RELEASE][root@pfSense.local.lan]/dev: route delete 10.4.0.1
                            route: writing to routing socket: Address already in use
                            delete host 10.4.0.1 fib 0: gateway uses the same route
                            

                            I have tried multiple iterations of the above route command with no success. I've manually removed the ovpnc1 interface, tun device. No luck. Any ideas?

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                              Slugger
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                              Hitting the same issues and I'm also using AirVPN as my vpn provider.  I have 3 OpenVPN connections on my 2.4.2 install:

                              Site to Site with shared key
                              Remote access
                              Client connection to AirVPN

                              Site to site and remote access haven't had any problems and the client connection to AirVPN only causes troubles when I've set an explicit monitor IP.  Once I removed the monitor IP, the AirVPN connection hasn't caused me any problems.  Once I add the monitor IP, the connection is fine until it drops and needs to reconnect (for whatever reason) then it won't reconnect with the same ifconfig error as reported by others.  That same static route for the monitor IP hangs around as reported by others and I simply can't get it to go away nor can I get the tunnel to AirVPN to reconnect unless I:

                              1. reboot pfSense OR
                              2. Change the port I connect to AirVPN on, which then changes the link IP on the connection from 10.6.0.0/16 to say 10.4.0.0/16 which then let's everything reconnect but with that extra static route hanging around and then when it disconnects again then I now have two static routes that hang around, etc.

                              And to answer the questions posed earlier in the thread:

                              1. Is the VPN interface assigned/enabled under the Interfaces menu? Yes
                              2. Does the VPN gateway have an alternate monitoring IP address? Yes (when I hit this problem, but for now I've removed the explicit monitor IP and haven't had any problems)
                              3. Is there a DNS server set to use the VPN gateway? No
                              4. Are there any manually-defined static routes set to the use VPN gateway? (there should never be, but some people add them not realizing they are a problem) No
                              5. Any dynamic routing protocols using the VPN? No

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                                jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
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                                So now my question is this: Is there anyone having this problem that is NOT using AirVPN?

                                It may be triggered by some option pushed to the client by AirVPN. Rather than focusing on the disconnection, get some logs from when AirVPN connects, maybe with an increased verb level that will show what they are pushing.

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                                  unclebacon
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                                  @jimp:

                                  So now my question is this: Is there anyone having this problem that is NOT using AirVPN?

                                  It may be triggered by some option pushed to the client by AirVPN. Rather than focusing on the disconnection, get some logs from when AirVPN connects, maybe with an increased verb level that will show what they are pushing.

                                  Here is a full log from OpenVPN set to the highest verbosity level.

                                  https://pastebin.com/29eWQCGY

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                                    dsp3
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                                    @SirJohnEh:

                                    Site to site and remote access haven't had any problems and the client connection to AirVPN only causes troubles when I've set an explicit monitor IP.  Once I removed the monitor IP, the AirVPN connection hasn't caused me any problems.  Once I add the monitor IP, the connection is fine until it drops and needs to reconnect (for whatever reason) then it won't reconnect with the same ifconfig error as reported by others.  That same static route for the monitor IP hangs around as reported by others and I simply can't get it to go away nor can I get the tunnel to AirVPN to reconnect unless I:

                                    Leave gateway monitoring enabled, but do not put in an IP address to monitor. Does that work for you?

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                                      Slugger
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                                      Yes it does.  The only issue is it ends up monitoring its own IP address, which isn't very useful, but yes it does work (and it's what I'm actually doing now as a workaround).

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                                        unclebacon
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                                        That seems to be a workaround for me as well.

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                                          amires
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                                          For me the solution was to stop using AirVPN's gateway (10.4.0.1) as monitoring ip. I set 8.8.8.8 as the monitoring ip about two weeks ago and since then there were not any more OpenVPN crashes.

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                                            RHLinux
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                                            @jimp:

                                            So now my question is this: Is there anyone having this problem that is NOT using AirVPN?

                                            It may be triggered by some option pushed to the client by AirVPN. Rather than focusing on the disconnection, get some logs from when AirVPN connects, maybe with an increased verb level that will show what they are pushing.

                                            Sorry for the late reply, but yes I had this issue and I am not using AirVPN, I have my own private VPN server setup and had this issue also.  Seems to be linked to the monitoring IP on the remote end.  After changing the remote monitoring end IP address it seems to clear the route in the routing table.

                                            RHLinux

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