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#91
Troubleshooting / Re: Selective Routing to Exter...
Last post by BondiBlueBalls - August 19, 2021, 10:54:57 AM
Nice! I haven't seen that tutorial yet. I'll give it a try tonight. Thanks much for following up!
#92
Troubleshooting / Re: Selective Routing to Exter...
Last post by Criss - August 19, 2021, 10:51:54 AM
I get my selective Routing now working with the Help of this Guide here

https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/177167-policy-based-routing-via-vpn

best regards
#93
Troubleshooting / Re: Selective Routing to Exter...
Last post by Criss - August 18, 2021, 08:35:37 AM
Hello,

I am trying exactly the same to accomplish selective routing with OpenVPN Provider. Actual all Clients are connected via VPN, but i would like to exclude now some Clients from VPN to send them over the ISP Connection.

I have under OpenVPN - Clients "Dont add/remove routes" Disabled, so all Clients are connected via VPN. If i Enable "Dont add/remove routes", then all Clients connect via ISP Connection..

@Dustin, this would be a great Topic for a new Article :)

Thx
#94
Troubleshooting / Re: Selective Routing to Exter...
Last post by BondiBlueBalls - August 13, 2021, 03:17:31 PM
Hey there. Sorry I haven't replied in a while. Home networking isn't always a priority in the summer. :)

So regarding this step:
QuoteYou will have to set your interfaces to use the VPN as the gateway so you can have some networks on the VPN and some that are not if you so desire.

I was able to solve my first issue where enabling the VPN killed my internet access by checking the "Don't add/remove routes" box in the VPN client setup. Assuming this is correct, I went to the next step of assigning the new "ovpnc2" network port to an interface I called "WAN_PIA". When enabling this new interface, two new gateways are created, "WAN_PIA_VPNV6 (active)" and "WAN_PIA_VPNV4". In the "WAN_PIA" interface, I have both IPv4 and IPv6 config types set to none. Where do these new gateways come from? Why is IPv6 active, but not IPv4?

So ya, that's kinda where I am. Does this issue ring a bell? Did I miss a step or do something wrong? Is it even an issue? :)

I'm happy to be a guinea pig for your potentially new article, and thanks again for any potential help!
#95
Tech Discussions / Opnsense + sensei vs untangle
Last post by hoggtoggs - August 11, 2021, 11:02:38 PM
Thanks for your detailed review of Sensei. Out of curiosity what is your opinion of opn+sensei vs untangle? Currently on the fence between the two projects. The price point per device seems about the same. I am interested in the web filtering aspect mosty but the other bells and whistles look useful on both as well.
#96
Troubleshooting / Re: Selective Routing to Exter...
Last post by Home Network Guy - August 05, 2021, 10:58:51 PM
I personally haven't set up my OPNsense as a client to an external VPN service such as PIA, but it is certainly on my todo list to write about. There is enough interest in the topic, and I would want to see what I could learn along the way that I could share with others.

That said, I think that you may need to do that 3rd step in the pfSense documentation to add the outbound NAT rule. That is similar to how you need the outbound rule for running your own OpenVPN server so communication can occur between your network and your clients.

You will have to set your interfaces to use the VPN as the gateway so you can have some networks on the VPN and some that are not if you so desire.

I haven't gone through the entire process yet but I think that may be the general idea. I hope tot dig into it more when I get some time to work on it.

Thanks for posting this on the forum! I am hoping others with more knowledge in areas I haven't explored deeply will chime in with more information. It is why I established a forum rather than just rely on page comments (since it's harder to work through issues).

If the amount of feedback continues to grow in the future, it could get to the point where it will be too time consuming to respond to every single question. I get questions via email, Disqus comments, and the occasional forum post.
#97
Troubleshooting / Selective Routing to External ...
Last post by BondiBlueBalls - August 04, 2021, 10:51:40 PM
Hey there,

So I've been following a few tutorials, but keep running into the same issues when attempting to set up a permanent gateway to Private Internet Access' OpenVPN service. So far I've used these tutorials:
None of the above tutorials get me where I need to be, but each seems to have some pieces that seem appropriate.

I've LOVE it if I could kinda roll through this step by step with someone. It's hard to ask the right questions at a place like Reddit for situations like this, so I was hoping this forum may be more appropriate.

So first things first, I started off by creating an OpenVPN client using steps 1 and 2 here:
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/helpdesk/guides/routers/pfsense-2-4-5-openvpn-setup

Without the rest of the steps, when I turn on the client, my access to the internet dies. I can reach anything on my internal network, but nothing external. I assume this is expected without the appropriate firewall rules, right? Thoughts?

Thank you!
#98
Proposed Network Designs / Re: Just starting out
Last post by Home Network Guy - July 19, 2021, 09:28:29 PM
Thanks for sharing your proposed design! Once you can post a diagram that will be helpful in visualizing how the network is laid out.

It sounds like you are planning to connect 3 different switches — one to each port of your modem/router. How are you planning to do that? You mentioned you have cables ran so are you running 3 different cables to 3 different locations with a switch at each location?

While that will work, alternatively you could buy one larger switch (16 or 24 port), connect one cable to the switch from the modem/router and then connecting all your devices to that large switch. Of course that requires you to have more cables ran to the location of your switch. If you only have a couple Ethernet drops ran and it's too hard to run more, putting a switch at location is not necessarily a bad idea for a small, basic home network. Keep in mind that you will be sharing bandwidth if you put a switch at each location if you have multiple devices transmitting/receiving a lot of data.

If you want to separate your IoT or guest devices, you may want to get managed switches. It adds more complexity but it's nice to have for improved security. However you would need a router that supports VLANs. The Internet Service Provider's modem/router is not likely to support that type of more advanced functionality. It depends on how deep you want to jump into when creating your home network.
#99
Proposed Network Designs / Just starting out
Last post by Alextee - July 17, 2021, 03:40:16 PM
Hi all

Came across the Website and forum looking to set up a more efficient home network which I think is going to challenge me technically. So once I have my head around it, it would be great to share and get feedback on how messy it is.

To help discussions my planned set up will probably be mainly cat6 and wireless but I need to configure it more efficiently so here we go.

Proposed top level is as follows

ONT>modem/wifi router 3 Ethernet ports

One Direct connect to a TLink 8 port Ethernet switch next modem which feeds a NAS, TV, satellite TV box,Apple TV, AV reciever, blu ray!
One direct connect to another TLink 8 port Ethernet switch which feeds home printer, NAS backup, time machine, Mac running OSX and Windows, Work PC running windows
One direct connect to a TLink 4 port Ethernet switch which feeds another Apple TV ,TV and Bluray

Wireless connects various devices phones etc . I also use a system called serato music on the wireless to look up the NAS drive which holds digital music which feeds music on my macs.

Cables are in so Once I've sketched it all out properly I  will post.

Thanks

Al