Need help opening a port for incomming utorrent traffic through Openvpn
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Hi everyone
I'm running pFsense 2.2
For the past month i've been setting up OpenVPN on my pfsense box. I've managed to route all outgoing traffic through the VPN (hope nothing is leaking)
The problem comes when I try to forward my utorrent port (or any other port) through the Openvpn tunnel…Downloading in utorrent works perfectly, but uploading gets almost no clients and the red exclamation mark Indicated that I ain't connectable... Port check also reveals that my port is not open...
I've intentionnaly disabled uPnP in pfsense.My configuration is loosely based on many tutorials I've found but none really gets me the port NATed out...
Attached are my configs.
Help would be appreciated!
Thanks.
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Will your VPN provider forward a port to you? If they're assigning you an RFC1918 private address and won't port forward to you there's nothing you can do.
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You can get a VPS, install a desktop there, run your download programs etc there accessing it via remote desktop/teamviewer or whatever and then just upload the files via SFTP or whatever to your current location.
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Will your VPN provider forward a port to you? If they're assigning you an RFC1918 private address and won't port forward to you there's nothing you can do.
Well that's a pretty basic question that I didn't even think of… Is it something complicated to do on their end?
And how do I determine if a port is forwarded to me? Support is really scarse over there...
Thank you.
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You can get a VPS, install a desktop there, run your download programs etc there accessing it via remote desktop/teamviewer or whatever and then just upload the files via SFTP or whatever to your current location.
Hmm my provider used to provide a remote PC but not anymore…
The funny thing is before I thought of putting Openvpn tunnel on my pfsense box I used the Bitvise SSH to run my Openvpn tunnel and everything was running fine... So they must assign me a port...
Or am I mistaken?
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No idea what that is or how it was set up.
I see you have a gateway of 10.x.x.x on your OpenVPN client interface. You can put all the port forwards on your VPN interface you want. Nobody will be able to get to them.
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I believe you are over-thinking this.
What you are probably not understanding is that the far end of your VPN connection is where the IP address is that is accepting connections from other torrent clients. Furthermore, you say downloading works perfectly, but it wouldn't run at anything resembling good speed if you weren't also uploading - to other torrent clients.
Also, the icon that shows you are "not connectable" is meaningless when running a torrent client over a VPN or proxy. You are in fact connectable, but on the IP address at the far end of your VPN.
So, don't bother trying to open a port for incoming bittorrent - there is nothing to open on your end.
Not having a huge number of clients that you are uploading to isn't unusual, so don't worry about it.
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Some vpn providers, e.g.. Strongvpn, do forward all the incoming connections to your client interface, most providers don't though. Check if that is the case first. Then port forwarding will work.
Renting a vps and setting up a basic linux installation and torrent software is probably the way to go though and can even work out cheaper than a vpn-only service but is a little more work to set up. -
Thanks for all your replies, I finally bought from another VPN provider and so far it's working pretty well.
