Unable to reach Transmission web interface after applying VPN

stevenpgrey

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Hi. I have installed and used Transmission with no problems until yesterday I decided to use this guide on adding a VPN to the jail - TrueNAS: Add VPN Connection to a Jail
I have an Expressvpn subscription and I have checked that the VPN connection is working and the jail shows a foreign IP.

However I can't connect to my web interface anymore. I'm wondering if there's some routing table or port forwarding I need to do.
Thanks.
 

homer27081990

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P2P torrent protocols rely heavily on IPv6. Did you configure IPv6 for the bridges, tunnels, routers and whatnot (or disable it altogether)? If the jail bridge has even a link-local but the system is not routing IPv6, transmission could be receiving packets through IPv4 VPN but (through a config in transmission itself of WebGui 0.0.0.0, IPv6 ::) trying to respond from IPv6. I would suggest configuring transmission's IPs in its own internal config first, then configuring the bridge (witch is TrueNAS config).
 

stevenpgrey

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Btw, if anyone happens to stumble across this thread in the future, I solved this problem by disabling NAT and giving the jail an IP address of its own on my local network. I can't access the interface from the outside even with port forwarding so I have to VPN in, but that's for the best I guess.
 
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