Plex through surfshark wireguard pfsense vpn
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What is failing there?
What is now working?
How are you testing?
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@stephenw10 so I allowed it in Nat outbound like you said. I also had to create a firewall rule to allow internet to be accessible and I’m running Plex, but my Plex ip says insecure where ssl is meant to be, so I don’t know if that’s normal???
But I went on Plex.tv on my laptop and it showed the error above.
But at the moment I’m on holiday and my Plex server is at home so my laptop is connected to Tailscale so I can work on my local IP’s at home.
My Plex ip let’s me see my server just not working via the Plex.tv website -
Ah, so you are trying to connect to the Plex server from some remote location.
So using the IP directly allows you to connect but shows as insecure? Dos it show a bad cert, like self signed?
That seems like a setting in Plex. I don't run it I can't comment specifically.Using the app is it trying to access Plex over the VPN or dircetly? Via a port forward or some external relay?
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@stephenw10 I managed to get around it. I got a feeling my laptop that has a vpn was making it unsecured, or it may be a Tailscale issue. All I know is that the NAT record u helped me with is working perfect. If I cat ifconfig.me it replies with my ISP’s Public IP not the vpn. So thanks for your help. I don’t know if it a pfsense problem or if it’s because I haven’t port forwarded my isp router to the pfsense. But I still get remote access to enable it just says error. Could it be because my ISP router doesn’t have a port forward to the pfsense? Because the port forwarding rule is set for Plex in pfsense.
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If it does rely on a port forward then, yes, you would need that traffic to arrive at the pfSense WAN. So if you ISP router is still routing it too would need to forward the traffic.
I know @johnpoz runs Plex in all sorts of interesting configs so there's a good chance he could diagnose this in seconds if he's around.
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@stephenw10 see the idea was port forward pfsense but not my isp modem/router but if u need to port forward isp one to the pfsense then I’ll do it
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I don't know if you do or not. I don't use Plex but I'm pretty sure it connects outbound to the Plex cloud servers and should allow accessing it via them. It may need to be configured to allow that for example.
It might rely on UPnP or be configured for that by default and that wouldn't work through two routers. Though I doubt @johnpoz would allow that.
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@stephenw10 I noticed it used upnp wen it was connected to my isp router, all I know is since I started pfsense, I can’t share it to other users at the moment
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@jhmc93 Plex requires port 32400 to be forwarded for the secure connection to work.
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@Gblenn it is forwarded on pfsense, but my isp modem/router is not port forwarding to pfsense, so I’m wondering if that would be the problem
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@jhmc93 Yes definitely, that would generally be a problem with any server or application that requires port forward.
Do you have to use your ISP's router at all? If your ISP only provides IP to a specific MAC address, you can always clone that and make pfsense look like it is the ISP router.
Otherwise, does your ISP router have something called "bridge mode" or "passthru mode"? If so, that will basically just pass on your public IP directly to WAN on pfsense.
If not, I'm guessing it should at least have DMZ, which essentially forwards all ports straight thru to pfsense. Preferably you should give pfsense a static IP since DMZ requires it to point to a specific IP on the ISP router LAN side.
Finally, if that is not available, you have to forward port 32400 to the IP of pfsense...
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@Gblenn my ISP router is also my modem, so it’s gotta be running to provide my internet. Also my pfsense only has LAN ports but no WiFi access, so I use my WiFi devices on my ISP/ Modem router and my pfsense for my proxmox clusters that run my media servers.
I can use DMZ on my isp/ router so I’ll set that when I get home from my holiday. As right now I can only access my pfsense and proxmox servers. -
@jhmc93 Ah, so you are accessing pfsense remotely via your VPN? But then you should also be able to access your ISP router simply by adding it's IP range to the Allowed IP's list for your VPN client...
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High risk though if you get it wrong!
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@Gblenn I’m using Tailscale to access my pfsense
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@jhmc93 said in Plex through surfshark wireguard pfsense vpn:
@Gblenn I’m using Tailscale to access my pfsense
Ok same thing though, you need to add the IP of the ISP router to the subnet routers' allowed IP's.
sudo tailscale up --advertise-routes=LAN-IP/24, ISP-router-IP/32 (or entire range)
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@Gblenn wouldn’t that be a security risk?
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You only need to route the ISP routers internal subnet since that's how you would be accessing it.
However getting that config wrong could leave you unable to access anything until you get on site. That's the real risk IMO.
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@stephenw10 IMO?, what if my machines are connected to lan pfsense is that command u put still valid for that ?
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I didn't put a command. I would add it in the gui so you don't end up removing any other subnets you are routing.
