Bug #2273
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OpenVPN won't listen on interface 'any' after adding CARP vip's
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Description
After adding CARP VIP's, with the openvpn 'interface' parameter set to 'any', openvpn won't listen for connections.
I was adding CARP to a 2.0.1 box on which the OpenVPN instances listen to 'any' for Multi-WAN failover capability, and the remote OpenVPN connections weren't working afterwards. The processes were running:
[2.0.1-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.example.com]/root(46): ps ax | grep openvpn 385 ?? Ss 0:00.07 /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --config /var/etc/openvpn/server1.conf 6587 ?? Ss 0:00.05 /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --config /var/etc/openvpn/server3.conf 29362 ?? Ss 0:01.37 /usr/local/sbin/openvpn --config /var/etc/openvpn/server2.conf 24346 0 R+ 0:00.00 grep openvpn e
But, here is one server (of three) listening, the interface is set to the CARP VIP (blinded domain/first two octets of Internet address -192.168 substituted):
[2.0.1-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.example.com]/root(49): netstat -n -p udp Active Internet connections Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) udp4 0 0 192.168.104.108.18578 96.44.157.90.123 udp4 0 0 192.168.104.108.22693 46.166.138.172.123 udp4 0 0 10.10.10.202.123 *.* udp4 0 0 192.168.104.105.1193 *.* udp4 0 0 10.10.10.202.161 *.* udp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.19000 *.* udp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.6969 *.*
Here, I change another server to listen on the VIP rather than 'any' and it immediately starts listening properly (udp 1194):
[2.0.1-RELEASE][admin@pfsense.example.com]/root(50): netstat -n -p udp Active Internet connections Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state) udp4 0 0 75.150.104.108.28881 74.117.214.3.123 udp4 0 0 192.168.104.108.37209 74.118.152.85.123 udp4 0 0 192.168.104.108.38463 72.14.179.211.123 udp4 0 0 10.10.10.202.123 *.* udp4 0 0 192.168.104.105.1194 *.* udp4 0 0 192.168.104.105.1193 *.* udp4 0 0 10.10.10.202.161 *.* udp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.19000 *.* udp4 0 0 127.0.0.1.6969 *.*
The 'any' interface selection was working great before adding the CARP VIP's. I see the CARP 'vip' interfaces just fine in ifconfig.
I don't know much about the OpenVPN code, but I do see things like:
struct ifreq ifs[20]; // Maximum number of interfaces to scan
I wonder if adding 16 CARP interfaces (each AF_INET I think?) could overrun a limit. In the OpenVPN debug I see:
Fri Mar 9 01:28:57 2012 us=427476 Listening for incoming TCP connection on [undef] Fri Mar 9 01:28:57 2012 us=427566 TCPv4_SERVER link local (bound): [undef] Fri Mar 9 01:28:57 2012 us=427653 TCPv4_SERVER link remote: [undef]
on a failed server. I don't have any experience building pfSense, and I wasn't even sure how to find the shipped OpenVPN source (not in github?), so this is just going from a source download on my own machine (i.e. the above line may not be what's shipping in pfSense).
Unfortunately, due to bug #814, using multiple servers isn't a workaround at the moment for CARP plus Multi-WAN.
Updated by Chris Buechler about 12 years ago
- Status changed from New to Rejected
"any" works fine with CARP and in any other circumstances. netstat doesn't show what's listening, only active connections. Use sockstat for that. We use stock OpenVPN with one exception fixing passtos which is in the port in the tools repo on github. This isn't a problem in our code and I really doubt it's a problem at all. In some circumstances with multi-WAN you can't use any and that's probably where you're going wrong. Better to bind to LAN and use port forwards for multi-WAN.