What am I doing wrong?

[Mad Professor]

I'm trying to setup a roadwarrior openvpn using my laptop and wifi tethering through my phone to connect to my pfsense box at home. But windows 7 client won't connect saying TLS key negotiation failure, TLS handshake error. which seems to be a firewall issue, I created the firewall rule:

PASS
WAN
Protocol: UDP
source: any
OS type: any
Destination: any
Destination port range from: OpenVPN
Destination port range to: OpenVPN
Tick in the LOG

and I see the request from laptop to the firewall but it keeps going to the DMZ subnet specifically 172.16.0.125 which is a videophone.

If I block the 1194 on the dmz subnet, it still doesn't work, if I set the destination on wan rule to ! DMZ net, it's now reporting it blocked.

Is this because I have 1:1 nat of my public ip going to private ip causing this to break?

Also if I set openvpn through nat using 192.168.0.1 then I get

openvpn[10291]: 208.54.64.168:19692 write UDPv4: Operation not permitted (code=1)
May 2 13:23:04 	openvpn[10291]: 208.54.64.168:28496 write UDPv4: Operation not permitted (code=1)
May 2 13:23:03 	last message repeated 2 times
May 2 13:23:01 	openvpn[10291]: 208.54.64.168:19692 write UDPv4: Operation not permitted (code=1)

What can I do to fix this?

[Mad Professor]

After two days banging my head on the desk, I got it.

As for future reference to anyone, I was using pfsense 1.2.3.
This is how I got it to work.
I had to set a custom option in openvpn```
local 192.168.0.1

It took awhile since of a lot of the guides don't show this, and it was critical missing link.

[heper]

i would advice updating to 2.0.3 which is the latest stable. Since 1.2.3 there have been numerous improvements, also making it much easier to setup openvpn.