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We use pfsense as a router/firewall. Because we're based in China, it is useful for us to have VPN access for all our internal clients. Instead of each individual client connecting to a VPN server stateside, I'd like to configure pfsense as a VPN client and have all the network traffic be routed through it.

Most of the posts I've seen regarding pfsense and VPN are concerning connecting to the LAN from outside; this is not what I want to do.

Another option would be for an SSH tunnel to be initiated on the pfsense box with the LAN traffic routed through it.

How do I configure pfsense to be able to do either of these? One huge caveat is that OpenVPN cannot be used. The solution I am looking for needs to use one of the other VPN protocols.

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  • What VPN protocols can be used?
    – Grant
    Mar 3, 2014 at 2:53
  • PPTP, L2TP, IPSec Mar 3, 2014 at 6:31
  • If pfSense can't do it, would you consider an alternative solution?
    – pepoluan
    Mar 3, 2014 at 7:18

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You configure openvpn client in pfsense. Its under VPN->OPENVPN->Client.

The link below has an excellent walkthrough for it:

https://www.blackvpn.com/support/pfsense-with-openvpn/

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  • I will fill in more detail here once I am back at my computer.
    – Grant
    Mar 3, 2014 at 2:37
  • Thanks for your answer Grant. I added a caveat... I can't use OpenVPN. It gets blocked here. Mar 3, 2014 at 2:38
  • After I configure OpenVPN client, then what can I do with it?
    – user102132
    Oct 4, 2014 at 23:11
  • I agree that openvpn is probably the simplest (IPSec + L2TP are still broken under pfSense 2.1, IPSec by itself works well) - note that you can specify what port your openvpn client/server use (try tcp 1723 or udp 500/5500 tcp 1701 -- those are pptp and IPSec/L2TP). Nov 18, 2014 at 11:06

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