Using ping (the command) to check on clients

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ImaginaryTango
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Using ping (the command) to check on clients

Post by ImaginaryTango » Thu May 04, 2023 7:31 am

I have an OpenVPN server on Debian 11 on a VPS and have been able to connect to it with my iPhone and with a pfSense firewall as clients. When I check the IP addresses from the server, I can find them okay, but neither client responds to the ping command. While that's not necessary for what I want to do, it would help me with checking what's connected and just verifying a system is responding.

I'm not talking about keep-alive pings that OpenVPN does. I want to just be able to check on systems with a ping command. Is it normal for the mobile OpenVPN client to not respond to that? And how about on pfSense? Do I have to enable a port or allow ICMP packets to be unblocked in the firewall for that to work with a pfSense device?

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