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      kwriley87
      last edited by kwriley87

      I have two PFSense firewalls connected with an IPsec site to site VPN tunnel.

      LAN A: 192.168.0.0/23
      LAN B: 192.168.5.0/24

      LAN A can ping firewall on LAN B
      LAN B can ping firewall on LAN A

      LAN A PFSense is running an OVPN server issuing 192.168.200.0 IP addresses. The issue is that LAN A OVPN clients are unable to ping LAN B firewall at 192.168.5.1.

      I've defined a route on the OVPN server residing on LAN A under its custom options:
      push "route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0"

      I can confirm that this route is established after connecting my OVPN client by issuing a ROUTE PRINT command on my PC:
      Network Destination Netmask Gateway Interface Metric
      192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.200.1 192.168.200.2 257

      There is a Phase 2 (tunnel) configuration set up on the LAN A firewall for IPSec for OVPN traffic as follows:
      Local Subnet: 192.168.200.0/24
      Remote Subnet: 192.168.5.0/24

      See below:
      Phase 2 Config

      However, I am still running into the issue of not being able to ping the firewall on LAN B (192.168.5.1) from LAN A OVPN connections.
      From diagnostics > ping, I run a ping test to 192.168.5.1 from the OVPN server and am unable to get any replies.

      Can someone please point me in the right direction? I would greatly appreciate it!

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        kwriley87
        last edited by

        Ahh this is resolved. Would have helped to read the post directly below mine...
        https://forum.netgate.com/topic/183242/how-to-route-traffic-from-openvpn-remote-clients-to-subnets-through-site-to-site-tunnels

        Creating a P2 for the other site of the OVPN network on the LAN B firewall resolved this issue.

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