PFsense 2.5 RC OpenVPN/ExpressVPN problem

trikki69

Apologies for resurrecting this thread 5 months after the last post but I'm hoping the solution I found helps someone else out with pfsense and ExpressVPN problems.

I've been having really big problems trying to get ExpressVPN working on pfsense - took me about 6 hrs of troubleshooting yesterday.

First, I set the VPN gateways to "unmonitored" in the routing section of pfsense - don't think it made any differece but the gateways now report as green "up - unmonitored" instead of red "offline - 100% Packet loss"

I thought I'd found the answer in this post about unchecking "don't pull routes" but as per @stephenw10 commented, I was getting a new default route pushed to me, all of my clients where getting pushed out of the VPN interface which is not what I wanted.
I tried adding my own default route but as soon as the VPN service stopped and started again the VPN pushed default route was back again and all of my clients were being sent out over the VPN again.

I finally added this to my advanced custom options within the OpenVPN client setup:
;pull-filter ignore redirect-gateway;

I don't get any problems with VPN pushed default routes now even when the VPN services are restarted.
Hope this helps someone in the future. :)

noplan

@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

trikki69

@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.