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      peterclo
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I was wondering what had to be done so that I could access remote clients connected to the VPN from my LAN? Say for example that they get IPs from the 192.168.192.0 pool and that I want to connect to the 192.168.192.5 client fro my 192.168.1.10 computer on the LAN, what should I set up on pfsense?

      Any help greatly appreciated :)

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      • GruensFroeschliG
        GruensFroeschli
        last edited by

        With the default config you dont need to change anything.

        Did you even try it?
        Or are you just asking if you will run into problems?

        We do what we must, because we can.

        Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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          peterclo
          last edited by

          Yeah I tried pinging 192.168.1.192.5 in my example and I only get timeouts. Clients can access the LAN without any problem though.

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          • Cry HavokC
            Cry Havok
            last edited by

            A diagram would help, along with details.

            Your last statement makes it sound like you don't really have any problems…

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            • GruensFroeschliG
              GruensFroeschli
              last edited by

              do you use PKI or PSK?
              in a PKI the IP x.5 is the pseudo IP openVPN uses to separate clients.
              your client IP should then be x.6

              We do what we must, because we can.

              Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                peterclo
                last edited by

                Hi and thank you all for your time.

                I use pfsense in a loadbalanced environment (WAN + OPT1) with the VPN set up to use the WAN DSL line. My users have been connecting to the LAN with OpenVPN fo nearly a year now and it works perfectly fine. They can access servers, shares, query DNS, etc. I use PKI to authenticate users, but the 192.168.192.5 IP I cited was just an example I picked randomly. My users IPs are like 192.168.192.30.

                What I never tried to do before was accessing those remote clients from my computer on the LAN. I've tried pinging their IPs but only get ping timeouts, that's why I wanted to know wether there was something else that needed to be configured to be able to do this.

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                • GruensFroeschliG
                  GruensFroeschli
                  last edited by

                  I'm running a PKI here too and i can access Clients from the LAN. It should "just work" ^^"
                  What kind of clients do you have?
                  Could it be that your clients have a Firewall that blocks pings?

                  We do what we must, because we can.

                  Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                    peterclo
                    last edited by

                    I thought about the firewall possibility too but I've tried it after disabling it and I get the same results :(

                    My clients all use OpenVPN GUI 2.0.9 to connect to pfsense.

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                    • GruensFroeschliG
                      GruensFroeschli
                      last edited by

                      If you ping the client from the OpenVPN-Ping utility do you get a reply?

                      We do what we must, because we can.

                      Asking questions the smart way: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

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                        peterclo
                        last edited by

                        Sorry to ask what is probably a dumb question but where can I find that utility?

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