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OPNSense OpenVPN Site to Site VPN unable to reach internal networks

I've been pulling my hair out setting up a site to site vpn with OPNSense. I followed the official guide with one exception, I'm using certificates. And I saw in a video that the interfaces created by ...
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How to get through restrictions blocking OpenVPN?

I have recently set up a VPN server on my desktop at home in the hopes I can connect to it while at the university from my laptop. I have confirmed that I can connect easily on a mobile data hotspot, ...
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Access remote network devices through OpenVPN

I'm attempting to use a VPN to access remote network devices, while blocking off those devices from the internet. I've set the firewall (on a Synology NAS) to allow accessing those ports from a local ...
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Which Windows Firerwall rules are necessary for Internet connectivity?

I use OpenVPN, it installs a TAP network adapter, I set its location to public and set all other network adapter locations to private. in Windows Firewall, blocked incoming and outgoing connections ...
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Clients don't see each other on OpenVPN / IPFire

I'm setting up an IPFire Server with OpenVPN and I want my clients to see each other. For this I've set up the OpenVPN Configuration via the webinterface of IPFire and started the server. The OpenVPN-...
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OpenVPN continuously restarting. Is this normal?

I'm new to OpenVPN and have just set-up it up using Streisand (https://github.com/StreisandEffect) and I'm having trouble connecting to the new server. I keep getting connect refused messages even ...
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Cannot ping OpenVPN server from different subnet

I have a cloud OpenVPN server and my goal would be to be able to access my home network from OpenVPN clients connected to this server. Currently, I have an OpenWRT router that is a OpenVPN client ...
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How to detect if a network is blocking outgoing ports?

How do I confirm if my network is blocking outgoing ports? I'm having issues accessing services on servers running on ports other than port 80 and 443. For example, I cannot ssh into any of my ...
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How packets traverse tun+ adapter on firewall

I am familiar with Iptables, and recently I wanted to build a statefull firewall which is connected to a openvpn server. If someone is willing to explain, how for example eth0 (WAN), eth1 (LAN) and ...
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openvpn configure iptables to allow only port 80/443 and throttle all other

I'm using Openvpn to let people go on the internet. All is working fine but i want to restrict the use torrent/P2p traffic. Instead of trying to block that by trying to identify them all separately i ...
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Getting an OpenVPN connection through restrictive firewall

First of all, when I try to connect from my phone through my mobile network using the same configuration everything works fine, so the configuration seems to be correct. However, when I try to access ...
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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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OpenVPN fails on different port

I have an OpenVPN setup with a linux server and windows client in mode-server with tap and over UDP. Everything works with port 1194. But I want to change to port 500. On my firewall I forward port ...
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Terminating OpenVPN after disconnect - how to disable reconnecting

I want my OpenVPN client application (running on A) to quit when it is unable to connect (or reconnect) to a server (B). I use the UDP protocol. Both A and B are Linux systems. More precisely, I keep ...
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Is Windows Firewall active on OpenVPN connection?

(This applies to "private" Internet browsing through a VPN such as privateinternetaccess.com) If I connect to a VPN using OpenVPN client on my Windows 7 box, will the Windows firewall be active ...
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