dfu123
It is driving me to tears at the moment. I have openvpn through a company called anonine and they are giving really poor support, but basically I can surf the web freely with openvpn (2.2.1, and gui 1.0.3), but when I setup a service and listen on a port using netcat for example- even though I have portforwarded my router, the port shows as closed when the vpn is on.. The port shows as open with the vpn is off. I just don't get it, but maybe its my lack of understanding on how openvpn works. I have also port forwarded the relevant config ports for openvpn too. Can anyone offer any guidance please?
janjust
without config files it is impossible to tell what is going on exactly.
my guess is that your VPN provider redirects all traffic for you (you'll see "redirect-gateway def1" in the client connection log with 'verb 5' set), so indeed, portforwarding will not work.
You might be able to simply add an extra route for your home network, but it all depends on the VPN and routing setups.
