You can assign a public static IP address to your pfSense router matching the VPN server.It would definitely make sense to set the firewall itself to be configured as the sole OpenVPN client and let it handle session management to the server instead, here's a couple of advanatges for that setup.
In fact, you can configure any device as an OpenVPN cient for a VPN server, but if you already have all of your devices connected to a central pfSense router, you can utilize that conveniently. This time around, we will go ahead and explain how to configure a pfSense firewall as client for a server running OpenVPN which is going to let every device connecting to the router to be a part of the VPN private network, thus having the same public IP as the hosting server instead. Correspondingly, as an openning for the series we started with explaing how to set up an OpenVPN server on Linux along with client configuration for different operating systems.
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