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Has anyone ran a pfsense firewall behind a Starlink dish and successfully deployed OpenVPN?

So I've connected my Netgate pfsense firewall directly to my starlink dish (gen 1 router with round dish) successfully, and have WAN/LAN running smoothly. Port1WAN 192.168. I followed this video and ...
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How to have pfSense append an RFC 6238 suffix to client passwords when connecting to OpenVPN server?

I want to setup pfSense to bridge two networks using OpenVPN. But due to non-security reasons, and not security reasons, it is required that the user's password have a 6-digit suffix (that follows the ...
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pfSense and OpenVPN client but traffic exits through the WAN interface

My goal is to have my internal network traffic go out to the internet through a VPN tunnel. I checked all previous questions but none of them had the same problem as I am facing, and none of the ...
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Trying to understand my level of privacy with a VPN in play, but also routing DNS directly to root servers

When I run a http://dnschecks.tools I get the following: Given I'm using pfSense with Unbound and OpenVPN, I'm doing my own DNS queries to the root servers. The IP listed on IPXO is my VPN IP, and on ...
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Routing Traffic from OpenVPN Server -> Local Network -> OpenVPN Client

So I have a PFsense box running on my home network. I set up PIA as the a VPN client using this tutorial found here as well as a helpdesk article from PIA themselves. After getting that all setup I ...
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How to connect OpenVPN clients to a LAN network with 2 default gateways

I am currently doing a test for our OpenVPN setup through Pfsense, we have 2 Pfsense running on the network, For the default gateway of the LAN Network as Main Firewall. For the OpenVPN Clients as a ...
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I've setup NordVPN via OpenVPN config on my pfSense router, but it will not connect

I've setup NordVPN via OpenVPN config on my pfSense router, but it will not connect. I followed this how-to doc exactly and (TMK) did not miss anything: https://support.nordvpn.com/Connectivity/Router/...
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How can I set up a Site-to-site VPN between old and new versions of pfSense?

pfSense makes it quite easy to set up a site-site VPN, using an OpenVPN Server/Client arrangement, as long as the versions of pfSense are broadly the same. But at some point in recent pfSense history (...
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Connecting Nintendo Switches over Site-to-Site VPN

I have two sites connected with an OpenVPN tunnel on which I am trying to get two Nintendo Switch devices (one at each site) to see eachother so that they can game as if they're on the same LAN. All ...
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Routing between 2 openvpn servers on a pfsense 2.4.4

I have an openvpn problem with my pfsense and several openvpn servers. The situation is the following: We have two sites, one main site and one branch office There is an openvpn site to site tunnel ...
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Some problems with my LAN's shared resources through OpenVPN on Pfsense 2.4.4

I installed OpenVPN server on my pfSense machine, and the OpenVpn client on one of my notebooks. Everything seems to be working fine; I can successfully connect to pfsense machine (dashboard) from my ...
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OpenVPN drops connection about once a day, logs indicate DNS failure

I have an old version of pfSense (2.3.2) running an OpenVPN client to a commercial server. Over the past few years, the OpenVPN connection has been dropping more frequently, and now it's about once ...
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Route OpenVPN traffic accross multiple subnets using pfSense

I have two physically separate sites each with their own LAN subnets. The primary site where the server has subnet 192.168.3.0/24. The second site has 192.168.1.0/24. The sites are connected with a ...
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Is my ISP blocking incoming connections to my OpenVPN Server?

I have worked on this for a couple of weeks now, but I don't seem to make progress. I have a hardware pfsense set up as my Internet router, everything works fine except that I can't connect to the ...
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pfSense as OpenVPN client only using PIA

I want to use pfSense as OpenVPN client only for PrivateInternetAccess. I have my network 192.168.1.x and would like to keep that network on devices connected to pfSense i.e my main router (ERX) ...
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Pfsense openvpn cannot reach a remote private IP via tunnel

I am trying to reach to a private ip address on a specific port from my production network. 1) I connect from my home to production network via openvpn(configured on pfsense), gets IP 192.168.4.31 2)...
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Client side ip6 address shows up as ip4:port address on firewall

I setup access to my family's home server over VPN, restricted by ip address. Sometimes a family member would have an ip6 address (they Google "ip") from their location. My firewall (pfsense) accepts ...
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Converting a P.O.T.S line to VoIP and simultaneously ringing a extension over VPN

Anyone with knowledge please help. I have analog phone service + internet at SITE 1. I only have internet service at SITE 2. When the phone rings at SITE 1 I would like the PC or an attached phone ...
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Proper configuration for Quagga OSPF on an OpenVPN network

First, a simple version of my network topology. [ hub ] | OpenVPN | 10.77.1.0/24--[ base ]---|---[ mr0 ...
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Cannot connect to OpenVPN within double NAT network

I recently setup a PFSense router behind my existing DDWRT (with Wifi) router. I'm trying to learn the ropes of PFSense so this double NAT situation is necessary. I setup an OpenVPN server on the ...
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How to setup remote server name for Openvpn in pfsense

My company runs pfsense 2.3.2-RELEASE as vpn server. All generated Openvpn config file are like this: persist-tun persist-key cipher AES-128-CBC auth SHA1 tls-client client remote 192.168.100.2 1194 ...
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How to use push "route 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0" on pfSense

My OpenVPN server has a local IP address 10.21.1.4 (it's on the 10.21.1.0/24 subnet), and uses the 10.21.4.0/24 subnet for the tunnel. What route should I push to grant VPN clients access to the LAN (...
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How to configure the custom options in pfSense for OpenVPN to access the LAN

In the Advanced Configuration section of pfSense's OpenVPN, in Custom Options, there's an example to push "route 10.0.0.0 255.255.255.0". In my network, my OpenVPN server uses the 10.22.4.0/24 ...
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How to access SOHO when provider gives private IP address on 4G/LTE network Modem

I have a new connection that has been working for 6 months at my SOHO. This connection is on 4G LTE at about 45M/12M. Before that I had a DSL with a fixed IP running at about 10M/1M but I want to stop ...
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How to remote access IP cam through VPN by iPhone

iPhone <--[pfSense]OpenVPN--> IP Cam Remote network: 15.0.0.15 (iPhone) pfSense OpenVPN server: 10.0.8.0 Local network: 192.168.1.0 IP Cam: 192.168.1.99 What i want: a) Block all outgoing ...
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OpenVPN clients can connect to anything on the LAN except the OpenVPN server?

I have OpenVPN running on pfSense 2.3.2. Right now I have it mostly working except for one small thing: I can connect to anything on my LAN except the pfSense server itself. Some details: I'm ...
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Cannot go on Internet from my remote location over vpn connection

Many information exists on this forum and Internet but I just can't filter out the solution for me. My setup is quite simple. I just installed pfSense and configured OpenVPN server on it. I downloaded ...
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Pfsense Openvpn site to site subnet

Site A Pfsense 192.168.0.0 Site B Pfsense 192.168.0.0 Can OpenVPN Link A<>B, or should i use different subnet for A and B ? (like 192.168.0.0 and 192.168.1.0)
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pfSense 2.1 OpenVPN client not using tunnelled interface

I'm having some trouble getting OpenVPN working on my pfSense box. The issue is quite strange to me. When I have the OpenVPN turned on, only my router is able to connect to the Internet. From the ...
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Is is possible to set up a static IP through Pfsense when user is connecting through OpenVpn?

I'm setting IP based restrictions on our firewall and need to allow certain people to connect even when they are connected through OpenVPN. Is it possible to assign users a static IP?
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