Is it just me or is VPN at all broken in PFsense 5.X?
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It has to be just me right?
I've been using PFSense for years to setup simple site to site VPNs for people.
Ever since the update to version 5 I have been unsuccessful in every attempt to bring up either a site to site OPENVPN vpn or an IPSEC vpn.It has always worked flawlessly and hassle free for me to set one up in PFsense 2.4 and older.
All of my customers are still stuck on 2.4 because I have not figured out what I'm doing wrong
and have been unable to yet ever get a system to work on PFS 5.XIs there something basic I could be missing?
Early on with V5 there were certainly VPN issues and it did not work out of the box back then.I gave up after spending hours with it and a few posts about it here and stuck to 2.4.5
And I still need to use 2.4.5 if I want to bring up a VPN until I figure out what I'm missing.Just thought I'd post the high level question and my experience with 5 here before I dig in deeper and try to figure out what is wrong.
Sorry no details here and this is not the intention of my post to get anything other than
Other than trying to get a feel for if anyone else has had issues is having issues or not.I must be missing something stupid.
And Honestly I just have not put in a big effort to figure it out yet.
I have of course checked all of the basic things early on when I first tried 5.X ages ago.
But just thought I'd try a fresh stab at it with 5.2 out of the box and so far I'm having the same
general failure and non success as I did a year ago when I first tried out the new version.Steve
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The issue is probably the '5' thing you mentioned.
Dono what that is.
Look here : https://www.pfsense.org/download/The next important thing is that OpenVPN itself - see here : https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ went from the 2.4.x series (th ese are NOT pfSense series numbers !!) to the 2.5.1, 2 or 3 version.
And between2.4.x and 2.5.x (OpenVPN !) things changed, some parameters are faced out, some can even do other things. Mixing 2.4.x settings (opvn file) with 2.5.x (2.5.2 is the OpenVPN version on pfSense 2.5.2) can crate issues. The other way around : same thing.
So, using pfSense 2.5.2, things changed.I'm using a OpenVPN 2.5.x client on the client side, and pfSense 2.5.2, this works just fine.
And yes, I to go to the OpenVPN 2.5.x release info page ( again : here https://openvpn.net/community-downloads/ ) and read the "Overview of changes since OpenVPN 2.4" part.
