My friend and I both have pfsense as our routers, and we are trying to set up a site to site VPN bridge between our networks. We have tried to get it working using OpenVPN in peer to peer shared key mode. We generated the shared key on the server, and then copied it into the other routers key for the client. Both of our OpenVPN services are saying "U unable to contact daemon: Service not running?"
Help? I'm new to site to site VPN, I've set up remote access VPN with success before but it took me a while, and I cannot for the life of me figure out what is causing the service to give that error...
Also if it matters my IP range I'm using is 10.10.10.0/24 and my friends is 10.50.0.0/24, and my system is a 1.2ghz single core and his is an 866mhz Pentium III. I know they're crappy but we only have us on our networks and we are also broke kids so...yeah XD
Make sure the appropriate ports are open in your firewall to allow the traffic to initiate. (should be only required on the one side)
Double check that your tunnel network IP's do not overlap either range in operation.
If your pfsense boxes are sat behind another firewall, you will need to alter the WAN IP within the configs and also open up ports in that firewall (if you are not running DMZ)
We sorted it out. Turns out apparently my friends 866mhz Pentium III just can't do it. We moved the server to my 1.24ghz VIA machine and it has worked flawlessly. But Does anybody know if there's a way to have OpenVPN automatically set routes for a remote access VPN?