PfSense can't ping VPN Client on TUN network

[marteng]

Hello,

i've got a strange problem:

My clients can connect to the internal network over OpenVPN (from pfSense 2.1) without any problem. They have pushed routes and are able to reach all internal networks like intended. I can ping all internal servers/clients but not the other way around.

There is no problem with the Windows firewall of the clients. Two OpenVPN(TUN)-clients can see and ping each other while connected over the vpn with their virtual ip addresses 192.168.37.2 and .3. . All routing tables (internal clients/servers, pfSense itself and OpenVPN-Clients) are correct. The problem:

The pfSense cannot even ping its own gateway-ip for the OpenVPN virtual tunnel network adapter (192.168.37.1) - though it is listet in the routing table correctly.

The Problem must be the routing/firewall of the pfSense.

Does anybody have a hint for me?

Thank You.
Martin

[marteng]

I think I found the problem:

Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[24400]: OpenVPN 2.3.2 amd64-portbld-freebsd8.3 [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [eurephia] [MH] [IPv6] built on Jul 24 2013
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[24400]: WARNING: using –duplicate-cn and --client-config-dir together is probably not what you want
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[24400]: NOTE: the current –script-security setting may allow this configuration to call user-defined scripts
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[24400]: Control Channel Authentication: using '/var/etc/openvpn/server1.tls-auth' as a OpenVPN static key file
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[24400]: TUN/TAP device ovpns1 exists previously, keep at program end
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[24400]: TUN/TAP device /dev/tun1 opened
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[24400]: do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=1, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[24400]: /sbin/ifconfig ovpns1 192.168.37.1 192.168.37.1 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[24400]: /usr/local/sbin/ovpn-linkup ovpns1 1500 1558 192.168.37.1 255.255.255.0 init
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[26354]: UDPv4 link local (bound): [AF_INET]192.168.12.29:1194
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[26354]: UDPv4 link remote: [undef]
Mar 20 12:13:10 openvpn[26354]: Initialization Sequence Completed

In the OpenVPN-logs i can see that the ovpns1 virtual adapter is initialized with this command:

/sbin/ifconfig ovpns1 192.168.37.1 192.168.37.1 mtu 1500 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

Is it correct to list the ip address here twice and how can i change that from shell without completely reconfiguring the the openvpn server through web frontend?

[doktornotor]

@marteng:

Is it correct to list the ip address here twice and how can i change that from shell without completely reconfiguring the the openvpn server through web frontend?

There is nothing to fix here, leave it alone.

[marteng]

Thank you, i can see that.

Another pfsense is working without problems and I can ping the ovpns-Interface ip-address of the tunnel network from the pfsense itself. So it must be a problem with the pfSense-installation I'm testing right now. I will backup the setup and reinstall it this evening.