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      kdmiller61
      last edited by

      I have been using Pfsense for around 3-4 years now and have kept it update, I will be moving to Stuttgart Germany in the near future and would like to know can nordVPN be installed on Pfsense

      Keith

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        Gertjan @kdmiller61
        last edited by Gertjan

        @kdmiller61

        You've posted in the HA/CARP/VIPs forum.
        Have a look at the OpenVPN forum.

        You will find (yep, you can click, I made live easy today) many posts about NordVPN over there.
        True, most if not all are posting if they have question, view are posting with "works great, this is what you should do".

        Typically, your VPN should give you a dot opvn file file that looks like :

        dev tun
        fast-io
        persist-key
        persist-tun
        nobind
        remote netherlands-amsterdam-ca-version-2.expressnetw.com 1195
        
        remote-random
        pull
        comp-lzo no
        tls-client
        verify-x509-name Server name-prefix
        ns-cert-type server
        key-direction 1
        route-method exe
        route-delay 2
        tun-mtu 1500
        fragment 1300
        mssfix 1200
        verb 3
        cipher AES-256-CBC
        keysize 256
        auth SHA512
        sndbuf 524288
        rcvbuf 524288
        auth-user-pass
        
        <cert>
        -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
        MIIDTjCCAregAwIBAgIDKzZvMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBCwUAMIGFMQswCQYDVQQGEwJV
        .... removed ....
        H6bGeePdhvB4+ZbW7VMD7TE8hZhjhAL4F6yAP1EQvg3LDA==
        -----END CERTIFICATE-----
        </cert>
        <key>
        -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
        MIIEpAIBAAKCAQEAqzmLfyjotrjAxnr96V4PI9UjuCf+BFVgxe7yXCq9o62Zag/8
        .... removed ....
        
        p7/1CulE0z3O0sBekpwiuaqLJ9ZccC81g4+2j8j6c50rIAct3hxIxw==
        -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY-----
        </key>
        <tls-auth>
        #
        # 2048 bit OpenVPN static key
        #
        -----BEGIN OpenVPN Static key V1-----
        48d9999bd71095b10649c7cb471c1051
        .... removed ....
        
        7aed27125592a7148d25c87fdbe0a3f6
        -----END OpenVPN Static key V1-----
        </tls-auth>
        <ca>
        -----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----
        MIIF+DCCA+CgAwIBAgIBATANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQ0FADCBhDELMAkGA1UEBhMCVkcx
        DDAKBgNVBAgMA0JWSTETMBEGA1UECgwKRXhwcmVzc1ZQTjETMBEGA1UECwwKRXhw
        .... removed ....
        1xKbeC0kzhuN2gsL5UJaocBHyWK/AqwbeBttdhOCLwoaj7+nSViPxICObKrg3qav
        GNCvtwy/fEegK9X/wlp2e2CFlIhFbadeXOBr9Fn8ypYPP17mTqe98OJYM04=
        -----END CERTIFICATE-----
        </ca>
        

        When you set up your client on pfSense, you use whatever you can find to enter into the GUI fields.
        The remainder goes into the Custom Configuration :

        1de618b5-ac49-474e-a6b9-119cdbe4b2f0-image.png

        Before you begin, use your favourite web search site, and look up 10 examples that show you how 'others' did it.
        Search for NordVPN examples.
        with the pfSense version you use, that will be 2.6.0 CE or pfSense Plus 22.05 or more recent.
        Find these : what are the identical steps. What are the steps that one example shows, and is absent in the other(s).

        Also : look at the original Youtube > Netgate channel.

        No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
        Edit : and where are the logs ??

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          Astartes @Gertjan
          last edited by

          @Gertjan

          Hello everyone, new to the forum, just started using pfSense in general,

          current version 2.7.0

          my question is, when visiting NordVPN guide for 2.5 and have no luck, the best result I achieved was
          " Reconnecting (Could Not Determine Ipv4/ipv6 Protocol) "

          I've scraped the internet for a solution and looks like I'm having the issue, so came the the forum to clarify things and assert my noobness

          running a vLan from my WAN (recommended from the ISP) in order for the fiber connection to work

          and I've followed the NordVPN 2.5 setup to the book

          let the solution start here

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          • GertjanG
            Gertjan @Astartes
            last edited by Gertjan

            @Astartes said in Pfsense and NordVPN:

            let the solution start here

            Not here.
            This is the Home > pfSense® Software > HA/CARP/VIPs so no VPN talk here.

            Look here : Home > pfSense® Software > OpenVPN and you'll find some recent NordVPN discussions.

            No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
            Edit : and where are the logs ??

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