PIA VPN client kills my OpenVPN server
-
I am having an odd problem with OpenVPN. I have one VPN client, StrongVPN, along with one OpenVPN server setup for my own remote access. I route all of my internet traffic through the StrongVPN tunnel and have for years without issue. I recently upgraded my ISP and now have a much faster connection but StrongVPN is proving to be a bit of a bottleneck. To imrpove or alleviate this bottleneck I decided to try using Private Internet Access. Here is where the trouble begins. I can get the VPN client connection configured and connected successfully but it IMMEDIATELY kills any connection to my own VPN server. And to be clear, that is with the client connected and configured only; no interface created, and not a single new rule created. By default PIA VPN runs on port 1194 so I made sure that my OpenVPN server was configured to use a different port (I have tried several). I thought maybe it was an issue with the two VPN clients conflicting so I took down the StrongVPN tunnel to test. Still no luck. The ONLY thing that has restored connectivity to the OpenVPN server is to disable the PIA VPN client. Looking through the forum I could not find a similar problem. Does anyone have experience with a similar issue?