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    Can't make PIA work on pfSense (been trying all month!)

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      AkiraSensei
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      Unaware of this "NextGen" update, PIA through pfSense has stopped working completely this month. I've been trying for weeks to make it work again. No one was able to help me on Reddit.

      I have followed PIA's awful setup guide with no luck:
      https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/guides/routers/pfsense-2-4-5-openvpn-setup

      I've gone through the internet but the tweaks I've found do not work.

      Also to note is that I have 5 ethernet ports, 1 for WAN. I just want ONE port for VPN. It was working flawlessly for years this way.

      • I've re-added the certificate (even though that doesn't seem to have changed). I can't seem to delete the old ones.

      • For OpenVPN settings, these are my settings below, just like in PIA's guide, EXCEPT I have 'Don't pull routes' checked because I think that's to keep the VPN from being used on other interfaces. Disabling breaks the internet on all other interfaces.
        https://i.imgur.com/a15aoYO.jpeg

      • Firewall NAT is still set as Manual, as it has been for years. These are my settings.
        https://i.imgur.com/k4RpEJI.jpg

      • Firewall Rules & Gateways: https://imgur.com/a/kqjldFU

      Could somebody help me out here, please?? Is there something I'm missing? Is there something else I should show? I'm not a pfSense expert at all as I've always found it unnecessarily complicated. Somebody else helped me set up VPN years ago.

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