Astaro Security Gateway to pfSense Firewall - Site to Site VPN
March 16th, 2010
I’ve been working on getting this to work for about two days now. Getting the IPsec VPN to connect was no problem. That part took only about 10 minutes of trial and error. Getting packets to route through the thing, on the other hand, that’s another story. All the details of the connection are available on the astaro forum below. If anyone has any insight, please visit it and leave your comments there. I’ll be sure to post the solution here once I figure it out.
I finally figured it out with a little help. It turns out that pfSense doesn’t pass traffic through a newly created ipsec VPN. I had to create the appropriate firewall rules on the pfSense box and it started working instantly. Hope this helps someone else.