Netflix/Prime not being able to login/connect after sometime
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My guess here is that you have multiple gateways con figured and the system default gateway still set to auto. At some point, after a day of so, you see a gateway event on the main gateway and the system switches the default to another gateway. Whatever that is the Netflix/Prime client objects to traffic coming from it.
The source on the firewall rule should probably be 'LAN net', or whatever that subnet is. But using 'any' there would still work.
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Hi @stephenw10, @Gblenn and @NogBadTheBad,
I got your point about the gateway and, as a test, I removed all the configuration regarding the OpenVPN client and let's see how it goes.
I'm having issues with the VPN as well as it is constantly going down. A few days ago I was with Nord VPN support and they told me that installing the VPN in the pfSense is not supported for v2.6.0, only up to v2.5.x.
If the VPN configuration was the issue (multiple gateways), it should have been solved now, as I removed it all from the pfSense. If not, I'll restore the backup and try something else.
I'll come back with the results.
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@ftani said in Netflix/Prime not being able to login/connect after sometime:
they told me that installing the VPN in the pfSense is not supported for v2.6.0, only up to v2.5.x.
They may be conflating that with OpenVPN 2.6 which was only just released a few days ago and isn't in pfSense 2.6. I wouldn't expect any issues connecting from pfSense 2.6.
Steve
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@ftani said in Netflix/Prime not being able to login/connect after sometime:
Nord VPN support and they told me that installing the VPN in the pfSense is not supported for v2.6.0, only up to v2.5.x.
They don't have a clue - just another example of that.. See the thread around here about their so called "guide"...
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Mmm, I don't have much confidence!
Their docs cover several pfSense versions (which is quite impressive really) but only up to 2.5.
They probably simply haven't updated them. -
@stephenw10 said in Netflix/Prime not being able to login/connect after sometime:
They probably simply haven't updated them.
Maybe they remove the nonsense about using your self signed gui cert <rolleyes>
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Hi @johnpoz,
You mentioned the configuration guide from NordVPN is not exactly perfect, do you know where can I find a more useful one? I'd like to have a VLAN with a permanent VPN connection.
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@ftani Lawrence systems has a good instruction video on setting up OpenVPN. Still on 2.5.2 but I don't think it matters...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulRgecz0UsQ
One thing I thought of is what he mentions about "Don't pull routes" item in the setup of OpenVPN (around 7:20 min into the video). If suddenly all traffic is going through the VPN, Netflix/Prime may be blocking the server you are going through...And the rules you pasted at the top. I assumed all of them were WAN rules based on the first two which are the typical default blocking of rfc1918/reserved. But I just realized that perhaps you pasted the other 4 rules from the LAN side?
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Hi @gblenn,
Thanks for the video, I'll definitely check it out. I learned a lot about pfSense by watching his videos when I was doing my setup.
About the rules, I got them from a video from Stefan Rows, it was a video from Udemy but he is also in Youtube.
So, my current rules are:
For the WAN:
For the LAN:
And for the IoT (Home and Guest are similar):
Am I'm configuring it wrong?
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@ftani Now it starts to make sense, except the two block private networks rules under IOT (and the other VLANs). Those rules only belong on the WAN side, which you already have...
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Hi, after I removed everything related to the vpn in my settings, both Netfilx and Prime Video had been working for the last few days...