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jfirestorm44
Aspirant
May 17, 2020

Orbi and VPN help

Hello all. I have spent the last month working on setting up a NAS and am at the point where I am trying to get a VPN tunnel for external access. I have found a couple older post about Netgear and th...
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jfirestorm44
Aspirant
May 17, 2020

Thanks for the response. I have it running in a container on a Raspberry Pi. I for the life of me can't figure out why it's not allowing me to access my lan though. If I enable it on my phone through the Wireguard app then my phone just loses internet access all together. I have tried while on wifi and while on LTE with no luck.

 

I did set up the OpenVPN on the router also and it works fine. I just wanted to try Wireguard due to it having great reviews. Plus I am already using DuckDNS for DDNS and because I used the native OVPN on the Orbi I had to sign up for another DNS service (No-IP).

 

So does that mean that the Orbi does not block other VPN services? I should be able to use any other VPN and access my network just fine?

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CrimpOn
Guru - Experienced User
May 17, 2020

Oh, my.  You are far more sophisticated than I am.  I know that testing my OpenVPN is a chore because I have to switch my phone to LTE, then create a hot spot so that my laptop can connect through the phone rather than my  Orbi WiFi, then start the VPN.

 

You could put the Pi in the DMZ.

Did you check that the Wireguard ports are "open" using one of the web testers, such as "ShieldsUp!"

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    jfirestorm44
    Aspirant
    May 17, 2020
    CrimpOn wrote:

    Did you check that the Wireguard ports are "open" using one of the web testers, such as "ShieldsUp!"

    I'm so glad you brought that up. I did use sevral sites and they all say it's BLOCKED. I deifnatly have it set in the port forwarding section. I selected port 51820 and pointed it at my Raspberry Pi (192.168.1.29). Does it show blocked becuase it's not pointing at something external to the network?

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      CrimpOn
      Guru - Experienced User
      May 17, 2020

      The Orbi does not seem to open a port until something is "listening".  How about probing the Pi port 51820 internally?  Pi has a firewall that is "on" by default.