Hello...
I manage IT in a company with a physical Pfsense firewall (ver. 2.6.0-RELEASE).
Our telecommunications provider Telefonica España has installed a new FTTH and a firewall that converts Public IP into a Private IP. The latter, the Private IP, is the one used by the Pfsense and OpenVPN firewall to generate the Key and the connection configuration file.
To date, the OpenVPN connection was made through another Public IP.
I try to change this new Private IP to this new Public IP in the configuration file, but the computers that connect with the Windows Client OpenVPN keep trying to connect with the Private IP.
Has this happened to anyone? How have they solved it?
Thanks in advance.
Change IP Public
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openvpn_inc
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Re: Change IP Public
Hello xavima,
The configuration stored on an already installed VPN client will not be updated automatically if you update some setting on the server side. You will actually have to update it on the client side.
You may want to consider using a DNS hostname instead, so that if in some future situation the IP address ever changes, you can simply update the DNS record and all clients will automatically find the server at its new IP.
Kind regards,
Johan
The configuration stored on an already installed VPN client will not be updated automatically if you update some setting on the server side. You will actually have to update it on the client side.
You may want to consider using a DNS hostname instead, so that if in some future situation the IP address ever changes, you can simply update the DNS record and all clients will automatically find the server at its new IP.
Kind regards,
Johan
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Re: Change IP Public
Hi,
In addition, if I remember correctly, on export of the client profile you can change the remote address the client needs to connect to.
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In addition, if I remember correctly, on export of the client profile you can change the remote address the client needs to connect to.
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