Bringing out the big guns - PLEX, VPN and portforwarding

[Wolf666]

Try to set outbound rule with static port for your Plex Media Server, using your vpn gareway. this solution will open a comunication with plex clouds and they will be able to reach you without any port forarding since you have a state alive.

[Xerial]

As much as I think that sounds like a great idea I am really not sure as to what to put where here. Could you please help me understand that?

I yellowmarked the areas where I am not sure. I am guessing the interface should be OPT1 (my VPN client running with the public id). Also the address under translation should be QA (which is my test machine for this). But when it comes to source destination and pool options I'm not sure.


[Wolf666]

Interface: the one assigned to VPN
Source: ip of media plex server

Translation
Address "network" and thick "static port"

As a first step use the defaults and see the behavior.

[Xerial]

Something like this? I can't select network under Translation Address. At the moment it is not working.

Also I should probably mention that you can't select a single client as source. Only an entire network. So if I input 10.20.30.40 (which is my PLEX client's ip) I get 10.20.30.0/24.

[Wolf666]

In source don't put any port…if Plex ask to go with 32400 the static port preserve natting the port.
In the transaltion section, in address you should be able to select "network address".... do you have other options?

[Xerial]

I can only choose from my host aliases and "other subnet".

[Wolf666]

Use exactly "interface address"

[Xerial]

Still the same results.. Reposting my rules in the attached picture. Does it matter that I have rules to forward traffic coming in on 32400 via the WAN activated the same time as I have the corresponding rule but for traffic coming in from OPT1 (VPN)?

[Wolf666]

Can you post the gareway screenshot and interface assignement…
Opt1 is the VPN gateway? Or the interface assigned to plex subnet?

[Xerial]

Here you go!

Opt1 is the vpn gateway yes.

[Wolf666]

I don't have any other idea…sorry.

[Xerial]

No problem you really did make an effort so thank you very much friend!

[Xerial]

@Wolf666:

I don't have any other idea…sorry.

Hey Wolf I just wanted to tell you (and anyone else with this weird problem) that I solved it. After spending an hour or so googling yet another time I found a thread where a guy had issues not very different from mine. He received the advise to remove all rules under the OpenVPN tab under rules. After I did that it worked. The rule I had there was automatically created from the OpenVPN server wizard that I had run a while back. Really weird but it did the trick!

[Wolf666]

Great! Thank you for feedback.