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pfsense VPN routing in Virtualbox issue until I save any webconfigurator page despite no changes

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    IhaveAQwvestion
    last edited by IhaveAQwvestion Nov 30, 2023, 3:53 PM Nov 30, 2023, 3:37 PM

    I am running pfsense 2.7.1 in Virtualbox 7.0 on Fedora to host a pfsense router with an OpenVPN connection which is available to other hosted VMs connected to the virtual pfsense router.

    The purpose of this is to mitigate DNS leaks etc. which I have experienced when using the VPN provider's VPN client application.

    I am experiencing a strange issue, I will at first refrain from spamming too much information on the setup in case this is a common issue with a known resolution. I would be happy to provide more information including logs however if there is not an immediately obvious answer.

    Here is the issue: when my pfsense VM is launched, any connected devices fail to connect to the internet over the VPN which is setup in pfsense until I:

    • Login the webconfigurator from a VM on the pfsense LAN. Check status_logs.php?logfile=openvpn. It shows that the openVPN connection is up (Initialization Sequence Completed )

    • Make absolutely no changes to how pfsense is configured

    • Save any one of the webconfigurator pages.

    After that all devices connected to the pfsense VM can access the internet over the OpenVPN connection.

    For example I can go to system/general setup and without changing any of the fields, if I click 'Save' then the VMs connected to pfsense can suddenly access the internet via the OpenVPN connection which I have setup in pfsense. This happens every time even after restarts of the pfsense and re-creation of new Fedora VMs which connect to it from scratch.

    I have previously observed this same behaviour on previous versions of pfsense (2.2, 2.3 etc).

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