OpenVPN up but no traffic passing

nabil

Hi all,

I'm stationed overseas and I'm trying to use pfSense with StrongVPN to access Hulu, netflix, etc. I've followed the steps outlined in forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=29944.0 and the VPN reports that it's up when I look at Status > OpenVPN. I've created an alias group to route only a few devices from my network out the StrongVPN connection and I've created firewall rules to handle the routing out. When I add my PC to that alias group I can't web browse at all and I'm also unable to ping the distant end virtual IP (i can ping the local virtual IP fine). Also, when doing a packet capture I can see my local virtual IP attempting to send traffic to the distant end with no response coming back. I thought it might be something with the StrongVPN server so I've already switched to a different server.

Has anyone run into problems like this in the past? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I think I have the same problem as you. I am running pfsense 2.0.3. I followed several tutorials (swimminginthought one and the sticky one) and I still can not get it work properly as you mention. It is probably a question of openvpn version ?

kejianshi

Are you running automatic or static outbound NAT?

ircman

Hi Guy's,

I'm having similar issues with pfsense 2.0.3.

I'm using the OpenVPN Client software to setup a remote connection to my pfsense box and the VPN connection itself is up, some routes are being pushed to my client and I can ping the IP-address of the pfsense box itself.
But all traffic going through the VPN to the internal systems (like RDP, ICMP etc.) are not passing through. When doing a Wireshark on the RDP-server and tcpdump on the pfsense box I see that the traffic is coming in via the VPN to the firewall, but not going out of the firewall to the RDP-server. Wireshark is not showing any incoming packets from the VPN client.
So it seems that there maybe is a routing issue or that all VPN traffic is beeing blocked somehow.

What I found out is that when configuring a clean pfsense 2.0.3 box the VPN connection is working and traffic is passing through to my RDP-server. But after rebooting the pfsense box, it does not work anymore.
So something changes after rebooting the box.

To answer on Kejianshi, i'm using automatic Outbound NAT Rule generation

Regards,
Cedric.