I’ll try to explain the best I can - I have pihole and piVPN both running successfully. I can connect to my piVPN when away from my home network but I get no Internet connection when doing so. Al the setup tutorials I have followed mention port forwarding 51820. Does that make a difference in the connection from outside of my home network? The photo is what my router has for port forwarding - I am not sure how I should fill it in to accomplish this.
Set service name to piVPN, protocol UDP, external port 51820 (this will be whatever port you set on piVPN), and internal address to whatever your piVPN server private IP address is.
You will need to set the IP address for your VPN server to reserved so the IP does not change.
I have pihole and piVPN both running successfully
Nitpick : piVPN is merely an installer that setup OPENvpn or wireguard, and provides an easy script to add more clients later.
Thank you so much - do you think this is why I am not getting an Internet connection?
Yes.
You have to have port forwarding set up for your VPN server in order to connect to it outside your home. Otherwise when your router receives an incoming request to that port, it just drops it.
You have to have port forwarding set up for your VPN server in order to connect to it outside your home.
But that’s not OP’s issue? They can connect to the VPN, but the outbound connexion doesn’t work. Doesn’t sound like a portforwarding issue… unless OP enabled a firewall on both sides of the router?
I can connect to my piVPN when away from my home network but I get no Internet connection when doing so.
I had this issue once, but sadly I don’t remember. I vaguely remember that it was an issue of masquerade on the VPN server : the connexion was working, but the misconfigured VPN server didn’t send back the answer to the VPN clients.
Port forwarding will be required for any VPN server inside his network however.
In fact the documentation from piVPN mentions this.
I took his mention of connectivity to the VPN as a possible false flag.
I took his mention of connectivity to the VPN as a possible false flag.
D’oh, I forgot rule 1 of tech support.
