Hi,

I'm a very satisfied PFSense User for a very long time, but I'm running
into a problem that I can not fix, even after a long time of searching.

To get a real IPv4-Address to my home with only a DSLite connection. I'm
using PFSense with OpenVPN via UDP6 to transport a real IP-Address from
my Hosting Provider (Hetzner) to my home. The problem occurs with
PFSense 2.2 and 2.3. The opposite side (at Hetzner) is a Centos7 with
openvpn-2.3.10-1.el7.x86_64.

I can create the tunnel and ping without any problem. Sometimes I can
also use TCP without a problem. But most of the time not. The Problem
happens only from the internet to my home and without a detectable
pattern. (time, load on the link, source/destionation ip, Port)
tcpdump show a lot of TCP ACKed unseen segment, TCP Retransmition and
TCP Dup Acks.
>From my homenetwork to the Internet there is no problem.


My first Idea was MTU, but decrease the MTU did not help. Also the
option mut-test shows on both sides:
 Empirical MTU test completed [Tried,Actual] local->remote=[1584,1584]
remote->local=[1584,1584]

My second idea (or that of a friend) was bad offloading. So I disabled
all kinds of offloading with this:
ifconfig em0 -rxcsum -txcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum6 -tso -lro -vlanhwtag
-vlanhwfilter -vlanhwtso
ifconfig em1 -rxcsum -txcsum -rxcsum6 -txcsum6 -tso -lro -vlanhwtag
-vlanhwfilter -vlanhwtso
Without any help.

Yesterday I freed up another IP and configured a Linux-Machine as a
replacement of the PFSense. With iptables and openvpn and here
everything works without any problems.

So the problem is PFsense or my misconfiguration of PFSense.

I really would like to continue to use PFSense, so can anyone give a
hint how to fix this or at least what it can be and where to search.

CU
Jens

P.S.:

My setup:

The PFSense has a IPV6 Addresse and gets the IPV4 address via the
openvpn tunnel. This is also the default IPv4 GW. I have 3 Networks (in
192.168.*) in 3 VLANS and use NAT via the Public IP.
PFSense forwards 443 to a internal HTTPS Server and a High Port to a
SSH-Server.

This setup (without the OpenVPN Tunnel) was working without a problem
for 2 Years before I moved to a new City with this new setup.

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