[solved] Unable to reach hosts on the other side

[soul710]

I have successfully set up the IPSec VPN on my pfsense (2.1.5) following this howto: https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/IPsec_Road_Warrior/Mobile_Client_How-To

My goal is to be able to reach my privat LAN at home on my iPhone or laptop via internet. I have setup the VPN on my iPhone, and I can successfully connect. However I cannot reach any hosts in my LAN, via e.g. SSH. The very same thing happens when I use the VPN on my macbook. The VPN successfully connects, but no host is accessible. I can neither ping, nor reach via SSH/HTTP etc.

I have added the following firewall rules in addition to the howto above:

Also I have added this to the WAN interface rules (I found it in another howto):

Since the IPSec rule is also logging all packets, I was actually able to see the incoming ICMP/TCP packets when I did a ping or ssh connect. Still no connection gets established.

10.0.0.0 is my network at home, 10.0.5.0 is the network I picked for the IPSec VPN.

Can someone please help and tell me what I have to configure in order to access my home lan hosts from the mobile VPN client?

[cmb]

IPsec config looks fine, you're passing the traffic. Packet capture on LAN filtered on the 10.0.5.x IP assigned to the VPN client and see what it looks like. Likely an issue with the destination host at that point, maybe its mask is wrong like 255.0.0.0 so it thinks that 10.0.5.x should be local and it fails since it isn't.

[Hugh]

You could have been really unlucky and have used a range for your LAN that your ISP gives to your phone on its WAN.

As someone else mentioned just make sure your LAN masks for your devices are correct as well as your pfSense.

[soul710]

@cmb:

IPsec config looks fine, you're passing the traffic. Packet capture on LAN filtered on the 10.0.5.x IP assigned to the VPN client and see what it looks like. Likely an issue with the destination host at that point, maybe its mask is wrong like 255.0.0.0 so it thinks that 10.0.5.x should be local and it fails since it isn't.

This is the capture when I ping:

09:11:35.356199 IP 10.0.5.1 > 10.0.0.5: ICMP echo request, id 44374, seq 3, length 64
09:11:35.356870 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:11:36.353358 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:11:36.360665 IP 10.0.5.1 > 10.0.0.5: ICMP echo request, id 44374, seq 4, length 64
09:11:37.353348 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:11:37.364595 IP 10.0.5.1 > 10.0.0.5: ICMP echo request, id 44374, seq 5, length 64
09:11:38.364580 IP 10.0.5.1 > 10.0.0.5: ICMP echo request, id 44374, seq 6, length 64
09:11:38.365204 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:11:39.363323 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:11:39.373910 IP 10.0.5.1 > 10.0.0.5: ICMP echo request, id 44374, seq 7, length 64

This is the capture when I ssh:

09:12:25.933888 IP 10.0.5.1.49235 > 10.0.0.5.22: tcp 0
09:12:25.934496 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:12:26.933352 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:12:26.937879 IP 10.0.5.1.49235 > 10.0.0.5.22: tcp 0
09:12:27.933343 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:12:27.941839 IP 10.0.5.1.49235 > 10.0.0.5.22: tcp 0
09:12:28.942644 IP 10.0.5.1.49235 > 10.0.0.5.22: tcp 0
09:12:28.943222 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:12:29.933314 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46
09:12:29.946103 IP 10.0.5.1.49235 > 10.0.0.5.22: tcp 0
09:12:30.933302 ARP, Request who-has 10.0.5.1 tell 10.0.0.5, length 46

As you expected, the 10.0.0.5 destination host is having a subnet mask of 255.0.0.0:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr b8:27:eb:cc:5b:c2  
          inet addr:10.0.0.5  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0

Now how can/should I fix the whole issue? I'm not too familiar with all this topic. Should I just change the subnet mask to 255.255.255.0 on the internal 10.0.0.5 host, and all other hosts that should be reachable via IPsec accordingly?

@bc2011:
I would appreciate if you created a separate thread for your issues, since they seem to completely different to mine, which is pretty confusing for someone who reads this thread.

[bc2011]

Done that, sorrry for the mess and good luck with your case.

[soul710]

@cmb:

I just reconfigured the LAN interface on pfsense to use a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0, which got propagated to the clients via DHCP, and now 10.0.0.5 is also having a mask of 255.255.255.0. And now I can fully access this host via IPSec!! :)

Thanks alot for your help, much appreciated :)