Hi!
Does anybody know how to resolve this issue?
I've configured the OpenVPN and now I've lost remote access to the receiver.
I have local access on the same net but if I'm away from home I can't access the receiver.
I don't understand it, because I'm using a fixed local IP, and my Router should foward all entrances on that port to that specific local IP.
I wonder what I'm missing here! 
Your routing through a VPN, so your external IP address will be different (that's the whole idea of a VPN).
Some VPN's offer a fixed IP addy - but most don't, you need to check what your actual external IP addy is when your running openVPN.
Your routing through a VPN, so your external IP address will be different (that's the whole idea of a VPN).
Some VPN's offer a fixed IP addy - but most don't, you need to check what your actual external IP addy is when your running openVPN.
but if he can connect and stream from local network, the box have a local ip too.
If he connect from remote to the router and the router forward to the box local ip, it should work or not?
Your routing through a VPN, so your external IP address will be different (that's the whole idea of a VPN).
Some VPN's offer a fixed IP addy - but most don't, you need to check what your actual external IP addy is when your running openVPN.
but if he can connect and stream from local network, the box have a local ip too.
If he connect from remote to the router and the router forward to the box local ip, it should work or not?
Yes its possible to add the rules within the VPN to the forwarded router ports, but that is best done with a known IP address.
Or use something like https://www.noip.com/ and make your own host name.
Hi Jenseneverest,
I am in the same situation.
After add openvpn plugin in openatv, I cannot stream to remote location.
I have same service as noip, and before I add the vpn it was working fine.
From local network it streams.
From outside/remote location, I use the router “noip” service and the router forward to the box local ip, but does not work.
From my point of view it is not a local network problem, it is some configuration that needs to be done.
Am I right?
the situation is like this, with openvpn activated, new network interface is created (tun0), and all outgoing network traffic is going through gateway created on this tun0 interface, you can look at routing table with
route -ne
command
so if you are connecting from remote location, incoming traffic arrives on eth0 interface, and receiver answering through tun0 interface
so for example if you are connecting from ip address 12.34.56.78 you must put something like this on receiver - to tell it to answer on eth0 interface (gateway)
route add -net 12.34.56.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth0
Hi
Makes sense to me. :)
And where am I going to put that line?
In the openvpn configuration file?
Thanks for your help
Display Morethe situation is like this, with openvpn activated, new network interface is created (tun0), and all outgoing network traffic is going through gateway created on this tun0 interface, you can look at routing table with
route -ne
command
so if you are connecting from remote location, incoming traffic arrives on eth0 interface, and receiver answering through tun0 interface
so for example if you are connecting from ip address 12.34.56.78 you must put something like this on receiver - to tell it to answer on eth0 interface (gateway)
route add -net 12.34.56.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 gw 192.168.1.1 dev eth0
But.. By doing that aren't we overriding the openVPN function.
It would be interesting if there was a way to "bypass" VPN only for communications on a certain port. That way, the receiver would work with VPN, except for that specific port. In my case, it would be 8001 for streaming.
Just dreaming out loud I think!
But.. By doing that aren't we overriding the openVPN function.
It would be interesting if there was a way to "bypass" VPN only for communications on a certain port. That way, the receiver would work with VPN, except for that specific port. In my case, it would be 8001 for streaming.
Just dreaming out loud I think!
I have done similar with my router, where it is easy to assign what goes via the VPN and what dosn't.
BTW - you can and should change your streaming port from 8001 (look at your openwebif settings) to something else, and set a good paswword for login to it.....
especially if you plan on opening that port. There is hundreds of STB's on the web that are open to the world.....
Display MoreBut.. By doing that aren't we overriding the openVPN function.
It would be interesting if there was a way to "bypass" VPN only for communications on a certain port. That way, the receiver would work with VPN, except for that specific port. In my case, it would be 8001 for streaming.
Just dreaming out loud I think!I have done similar with my router, where it is easy to assign what goes via the VPN and what dosn't.
BTW - you can and should change your streaming port from 8001 (look at your openwebif settings) to something else, and set a good paswword for login to it.....
especially if you plan on opening that port. There is hundreds of STB's on the web that are open to the world.....
how did you do that?
If "Use VPN only for certain domains/hostnames - Super User" is searched, there are solutions, that comes to vpn client conf file, just short example, but still - this is not user friendly, clickable solution, and some knowledge is expected
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While the most common use case to is route everything through your VPN, there are two exception scenarios, when it comes to VPNs:
You want mostly all traffic to go through the VPN, with a few exceptions
You only have a couple of sites that you want to route through the VPN
You can add this to the .ovpn file:
allow-pull-fqdn
route www.g00gle.com 255.255.255.255 net_gatewayThen on openvpn startup this will lookup http://www.g00gle.com, get it's IP address, and then add a route for that using the net (not VPN).
So if I use the dynamic dns on router like a noip service, example xzp.com, we can change http://www.g00gle.com for the xzp.com in that line of code in openvpn config ?
Not working :(
Receiver: Zgemma H7S with client openvpn (without access to server configuration file).
Dynamic DNS Example: xpz.com
Router Forwarding the streaming port (8001) to Receiver local ip (example: 192.168.1.67)
Router IP: 86.241.78.120 (changed for security reasons)
Tablet with DreamDroid to connect to stream
Tablet IP: 192.168.68.110
Original openvpn client configuration file:
