5 5 4 Configure a Remote Access VPN
You work as the IT security administrator for a small corporate network. Occasionally, you and your co-administrators need to access internal resources when you are away from the office. You would like to set up a Remote Access VPN using pfSense to allow secure access.
In this lab, your task is to use the pfSense wizard to create and configure an OpenVPN Remote Access server using the following guidelines:
Sign in to pfSense using:
Username: admin
Password: P@ssw0rd (zero)
Create a new certificate authority certificate using the following settings:
Name: CorpNet-CA
Country Code: GB
State: Cambridgeshire
City: Woodwalton
Organization: CorpNet
Create a new server certificate using the following settings:
Name: CorpNet
Country Code: GB
State: Cambridgeshire
City: Woodwalton
Configure the VPN server using the following settings:
Interface: WAN
Protocol: UDP on IPv4 only
Description: CorpNet-VPN
Tunnel network IP: 198.28.20.0/24
Local network IP: 198.28.56.18/24
Concurrent Connections: 4
DNS Server 1: 198.28.56.1
Configure the following:
A firewall rule
An OpenVPN rule
Set the OpenVPN server just created to Remote Access (User Auth).
Create and configure the following standard remote VPN users:
Username Password Full Name
blindley L3tM31nNow Brian Lindley
jphillips L3tM31nToo Jacob Phillips