After rebooting pFsense, I have to restart OpenVPN - is there a fix?

[icedearth1776 0]

Greetings!

 

After rebooting pfsense, the openvpn service starts however I don't have internet access over avpn until I manually restart the service again.

 

This has been an ongoing issue and was hoping there might have been a fix with the most recent update.  Guess not.  Any idea how to fix this?

 

Thanks!

 

 

 

[pfSense_fan 181]

Go to the package manager and install "Service_Watchdog" package. It monitors for stopped services and restarts them.

 

Once installed, configure it and make sure openvpn is monitored.

[icedearth1776 0]

Hey thanks for the tip!   So does this imply the service is not starting on reboot? It looks like it started but I had to restart it to get it working.

 

I configured it but it says there is a newer version available (currently 1.8.3) and it says it's "configured but not fully installed".  What does that mean? Where are the email settings for notifications?

 

Off topic here, I see there is a vmtools package! Is it recommended to install it given pfsense is a vmware vm?