Need help creating script to get port number from PIA for port forwarding.
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I am attempting to add a script to my pfSense box that pulls or receives a port assignment from PIA. I'm basing my script on one created and modified from https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=71725.15 I'm not sure if something has changed with either pfSense or PIA since last July but I'm not able to get a port number with this script. It keeps coming back with "Port forward not available for this region." I've tried both Netherlands and Switzerland which are both servers that have port forwarding available. My first hunch is maybe I have a setting incorrectly set in pfSense. Or maybe PIA has changed something in their URL. Not sure. Anyway, I've verified that the variables going into the command below to receive a port assignment from PIA are correct (ie - username, password, client_id, local_ip).
PORT=
curl -k -d "user=$USERNAME&pass=$PASSWORD&client_id=$(cat $PIACLIENTID)&local_ip=$LOCAL_IP" -k https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/vpninfo/port_forward_assignmentI've got a working OpenVPN tunnel created to the Netherlands currently. Just can't seem to get this script to get a port number.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. If you need more info let me know.
Thank you.
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OK… I got my script working. Turns out it wasn't the command that pulls the port from PIA that was causing my issue. It was the line where the CLIENTID is generated. It seems just adding the pipe the removes " -" made the difference. Not sure why but it doesn't matter. It's all happy now.
CLIENTID=
head -n 100 /dev/urandom | md5 -r | tr -d " -"However, I am having the same issue now that Elegant and qwertytheking are having with regards to a port change not applying at least right away. Like qwertytheking mentioned, if you access the port alias and save/apply it, it opens that port but until then, it's still closed.
Is there a command or something that saves/applies these changes through CLI that I can add to my script?