Followed nguvu pfsense tutorial - trouble assigning/utilizing a connected green checkbox openvpn server

[chanabra]

Hello,
apologies this is a noob question, I followed this tutorial : https://nguvu.org/pfsense/pfsense-baseline-setup/ and followed it to a T. Having completed it and rebooted, the interface I made for ovpn "VPN_WAN" has been assigned a IP, and under the OpenVPN widget there are IP's and a green checkbox.
It appears everything is in place and ready to go.

I need to take another step before I am utilizing this guide's pfsense setup as intended however, I intend to finish that this week (I just need to implement the vlans on my mikrotik switch)... however, today I just wanted to poke around while using the vpn and test the speeds and whatnot...
So I figured like in the guide on VL20_VPN where basically it is a firewall rule to allow traffic to VL20_VPN and under advanced you select the gateway VPN_WAN...

so I thought ok, I will go to my LAN firewall and do the same thing under allow traffic advanced and select the gateway VPN_WAN
then also I figure I go to Firewall>Nat>Outbound and simply added a "LAN to VPN_WAN" outbound entry just like the VL20_VPN one...

now I reboot, and refresh settings on my desktop, and I havent been able to notice myself connected to this airvpn that is most definitely setup properly and available on my pfsense... if i switch off the advanced gateway back to regular ISP WAN Gateway, that works just fine....

can someone give me some insight I am probably missing something very silly, and I will definitely pay the favor forward in the future, thank you

[chanabra]

@chanabra

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EDIT FOR MORE CONCISE INFO:
Hello everyone,

I followed nguvu.org pfsense baseline guide - https://nguvu.org/pfsense/pfsense-baseline-setup/ - I have everything setup identically - as well I also signed up with AirVPN.

I simply wish to test the functionality of the VPN - I have not fully finished setting up vlans on my mikrotik routers - I plan to finish this week .

So in the meantime I wish to assign the client vpn server I added to my entire "LAN" interface. I added the openvpn interface as "VPN_WAN"...

I hope the following pictures will be of use that I screenshotted. So this is setup and working without the VPN, I am connecting through my ISP gateway

I understand it will not work with the way the pictures are displayed. I do not have internet when I attempt to use the other settings to implement the VPN wan as the interface for LAN.
I have a feeling my issue is with my NAT settings.
For the picture below: I simply edit the second rule LAN to WAN and switch the interface to the VPN_WAN interface, aka the openvpn one added after creating the vpn.

For my rules below I simply edited the two rules under LAN Allow Any<>Any -- advanced and select VPN_WAN as the gateway.

I thought that would be enough to have the pcs using the lan interface connecting through the vpn after this but nothing resolves with those settings except pfsense gui....

please help!

I have Allow DNS server list to be overridden by DHCP/PPP on WAN or remote OpenVPN server selected as well because I thought maybe there is a dns problem?

Can someone please provide me with some direct I would be extremely gratefeul and am willing to provide any and all information requested I will check this post frequently please !!

ALSO-->

Also, per the guide I added the AIRVPN_CA cert and the certificate under cert manager, I selected them as the guide displays when setting up the client vpn, do I not need to select them in the resolver or anything??

lost halp, thanks!!

[chanabra]

@chanabra Ill paypal someone to help me get this rocking and rolling ...

[chanabra]

edit - i solved my own frusturation by deselecting DCO after realizing airvpn is ovpn 2.5.
everything is working wonderfully.

sorry to add clutter to the forums