Recent content by smoothdad

Lancer, thanks again for your help. I tried everything you suggested. It didn't work. But in doing so I noticed that it looks like the Merlin firmware masquerades all traffic by default anyway, at least in my case. I was able to get ssh working by using the three commands from this post on...

Thanks Lancer. Yes you are correct about my port forwards, and I agree 100% with your diagnosis of the issue. The question is how to solve it. I used the same masquerade command with the eth0 interface (which I believe is the proper one for the router), and it didn't work.

Thank you for the response. Yes, I tried the nslookup tool and the results were the same with and without the VPN running. My network setup is pretty simple modem: Asus router: arch box. And Luke I mentioned, I'm running the VPN client on my arch box to connect to Private Internet Access.

I'm pretty sure this isn't a DNS issue. I believe it's a NAT issue.

Thank you for the replies. Yes, I've read the Plex/vpn issues extensively. This isn't just Plex though because I can't ssh into my arch box when the VPN is on either. I also had Plex and ssh working on this router when using ddwrt using the firewall command above. But I can't get either Plex...

I just installed the latest version of Merlin. I prefer to use OpenVPN on my Arch box (and other individual devices) rather than on my Asus RT-AC66U. When my VPN is off, all port forwards (SSH, Plex, TinyRSS) work fine. But when my VPN is on they don't work. When I used ddwrt previously, I...