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      augie
      last edited by

      Hi
      I'm trying to connect to my home network from "anywhere". The problem is that I get an IP in the virtual address pool but I cannot reach my LAN. I cannot access internet, connect to any hosts, servers or my pfsense server on the LAN. The only thing that works is that I can ping my pfsense server on 192.168.1.1. Since I get the same problem on both a win7 and an ubuntu 8.04 host I assume it is related to the OpenVPN server setup or some other pfsense setup error. Please help!

      OpenVPN setup on pfsense
      UDP
      Dynamic IP
      1194
      Address Pool 192.168.200.0/24
      Local Network 192.168.1.0/24
      LZO compression
      Custom Option management 127.0.0.1 1194; [for OpenVPN Status Package]

      Win7 ovpn_home.ovpn file - And the same in linux
      float
      port 1194
      dev tun
      dev-node ovpn_home
      proto udp
      remote myipathom.dyndns.org 1194
      ping 10
      persist-tun
      persist-key
      tls-client
      ca ca.crt
      cert client1.crt
      key client1.key
      ns-cert-type server
      comp-lzo
      pull
      verb 4

      Firewall Rules
      WAN - allow udp 1194 to any
      LAN - allow any to any

      That's it I think! Ah, yes, I tried to set up a "Client Specific configuration" with push "route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0" without success.

      Any suggestions?

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Not sure about ubuntu clients, but on Win7 were you running the client as Administrator?

        When connected, go to a CMD prompt, and type "route print" and see if you have a route to your home network that has an IP in the OpenVPN address pool as its gateway.

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