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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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