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    OpenVPN and PIA Issues?

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      Arinmal
      last edited by

      Hey Everyone!

      I've been pulling my hair out for weeks, I have pfsense working fine, (squid, squidguard, pfblocker and snort "seem" to be running as expected.
      The issue is I have PIA setup as a openvnp client and it works perfect, but I cant get the second openvpn service working for me to tunnel in. I used the openvpn wizard and I think the issue is with the firewall since if I connect interface ip address is connects perfectly, just wont connect once I'm outside my network using the dns from noip.

      This is the guide I followed for the openvpn wizard
      link text

      This is the guide I used for PIA in pfsense
      link text

      What screenshots would you need and I remember someone saying to black out parts of it?
      I'm a total noob with this stuff and have honestly searched the internet everyday for a few weeks looking for answers.
      My cable modem is in bridged mode also.

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      • KOMK
        KOM
        last edited by

        Does your Noip FQDN resolve to your WAN IP address?

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          Arinmal
          last edited by

          it just says this site cannot be reached, trying it from my phone not on wifi

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            Arinmal
            last edited by

            also I tried just using my external ip with the same results

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              Arinmal
              last edited by

              After looking at what you said yes noip does resolve to my ip address on their site

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              • KOMK
                KOM
                last edited by KOM

                OK because you said earlier that when you used your WAN IP address, it worked.

                Do I understand correctly that you have a client connection to PIA, and you also want to run OpenVPN server on your pfSense and connect to it remotely?

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                  Arinmal
                  last edited by

                  yes thats exactly what im trying to do, but for some reason cant get anywhere. right now I'm trying packet capture to see if its even reaching my pfsense box...Im not seeing anything but also just learned about 2 minutes ago so I'm probably doing something wrong

                  sorry if I said wan works, I cant connect to openvpn using wan either, nothing from outside works except teamviewer on one of my pc's

                  I'm using the client export wizard and openvpn on my android phone

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                    Arinmal
                    last edited by

                    ok so I just did some digging and realized my ip changes a lot, once I edited the conf file and put in my new ip as of now its actually trying to connect but failing on tls error cannot locate hmac in incomming packet from af_inet

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                    • KOMK
                      KOM
                      last edited by

                      Netgate has official docs on exactly how to do all of that. I've done it may times with success every time.

                      https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/vpn/openvpn/openvpn-remote-access-server.html

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                        Arinmal
                        last edited by

                        yea I honestly have tried all that, I think its an issue with pia and openvpn certs. I've seen many people just do a complete reinstall and get openvpn working first then adding pia/pfblocker to see where the problem starts, I'm going to do that.

                        Thanks for your help!

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