Plex over TUN adapter

Plex Media Server Remote Access
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Hello
I recently decided to setup my spare raspberry pi as a Plex server but I can’t get remote access to see my forwarded port when I run it through an OpenVPN tunnel, where I confirmed port forwarding works. but I noticed that Plex uses the wrong interface, it’s supposed to use tun0 and not eth0, and when I go in to the network tab I can’t select tun0 and the interface Plex should run on which results in Plex seeing a class c network(my home network) instead of the VPNs internal class b network, any ideas how I can make this work?
I already tried everything I could find on google but nothing worked.

If I start a listener on the PI via netcat I can get plex to recognize the connection for 2 seconds until the socket is closed.

EDIT: I should also say that running the VPN on my router is not an option atm.

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Did you try routing traffic from your local subnet to the tun0 interface:

iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.1.0/24 -o tun0 -j MASQUERADE

More information here https://serverfault.com/questions/571801/tunneling-traffic-from-eth0-to-tun0-openvpn-ububtu-12-04

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Hello,
Thanks for the reply, I already tried that but it didn’t work either. Any other suggestions?

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Does your VPN provider even support port forwarding? From what I’ve googled, many don’t and those that do require configuration settings on their end.

Interesting article here https://www.cactusvpn.com/beginners-guide-to-vpn/vpn-port-forwarding/

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Yup, they do. Used them for years without any problems but here’s proof that it indeed does work:

1102×454 31.3 KB

And here’s what Plex shows:

1056×476 432 KB

I still wonder why Plex won’t show the tun0 adapter, is it because of it’s POINTTOPOINT attribute?

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I’ve reached the limits of my slim knowledge on the subject. Hopefully a plex tech will step in and have some useful advise. Good luck to you!

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Thanks for trying :slight_smile:

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