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OK, so it's likely there's an issue with the firewall entries.


Did you use the wizard to create the VPN?

I followed the OPNSense Wiki. I may go ahead and try the wizard separately.

Right. But regardless I'm still unable to access anything on the network. If I set viscosity to force all traffic through the VPN (so I can watch Netflix abroad) I lose access to the internet completely.

It will stay the same as the WAN IP your connecting from, For example, say I'm in a hotel, Wifi gives me a local address of 10.10.10.123, my home VPN network, as explained earlier is 192.168.3.0. My Laptop WAN address, even when connected will stay at 10.10.10.123, only the VPN endpoint in the software will show an address in the 192.168.3.* range. If my WAN address changed, no  traffic would be able to route through the hotel network.


What is your LAN net range, and what is your VPN net range?

I think what confuses me about this is if I use a service, say Private Internet Access, the WAN IP address of my device is obscured so sites think it's coming from a different location than it is. I guess this isn't the case with OpenVPN? When I run an IP check on various sites it hasn't changed when connecting through my VPN.

LAN IP is 192.168.1.1/24 and VPN is 10.0.0.0/24

Correct. But that's the problem. Right now when I connect to my VPN (successful connection through Viscosity) my WAN IP does not change to the WAN IP of the VPN Server. It stays the same as the point I am connecting from. I also can't access any devices on the network I am connecting to.

Right - but my device should be located behind the IP address of my home internet connection. I understand this is how VPNs obscure your IP Address so services like NetFlix can be accessed. Right now my IP address is staying the same. This is wrong no?

Whoops sorry that was worded poorly. When I connect to my home via VPN my device should assume the IP address of my home internet connection. It doesn't.

One more screenshot

Hi all,
I'm new to OPNSense but I'm getting the hang of it. Really an impressive piece of software.

I followed the Wiki guide located here to set up an OpenVPN Server.

After completing it I am able to make a connection but I can't access anything on the LAN and my IP Address still shows the IP address of the network my device is currently connected to. It doesn't change to the IP address of my home server.

When I ping devices on the network (MacOS Terminal) I get the response: "Request timeout for icmp_seq 0"

I've attached screenshots of my configs. Please let me know if you need anything else. Appreciate any help!

This worked! Took a while for Plex to realize the port was open but now it's smooth sailing. Thanks so much! This thread needs to be marked solved so other users can use this :)

I'm gonna bump this instead of making a new post. I'm new to OPNSense and I can't get this working for the life of me. I have tried deleting and recreating settings over and over but Plex is unable to connect. Can anyone assist?