port forward openvpn

OK, please dont beat me too much... I have tried the Wiki and looked online and even here before posting... i have been trying to figure this out for a week. Here is my problem, i hope someone can help me accomplish my goal. I have a VPN client that has a Public IP and open port 80. The client...

Is there a way to use the VPN Director interface to only route some ports on the particular LAN IP to use the VPN, and leave all others to use the WAN? Or do I need to go this route for this type of functionality? Thanks!

I use a VPN service provider (similar to NordVPN etc), which offers port forwarding (opening ports). My understanding is that this is beneficial for some applications, such as BitTorrent. However, I am trying to understand what the functionality of opening ports actually accomplishes...

Hi all, Thank you all for this community and Thank You Merlin and the other contributors for the firmware fork. This summer, my port-forwarding stopped working while I am connected to my home network using the OpenVPN server. The connection looks like this: iPhone or Linux laptop running...

Hi All, I am a newbie in networking, so sorry in advance for any blunders. I have been running merlin (currently 384.9) on my AC68U for couple of years now & thought I will setup a VPN server to access all my media content on the connected HDD. My network setup is as follows: Internet ->...

So, if I'm using, say, a ProtonVPN server that has a dedicated IP, can I use Merlin-Wrt to block ALL IP addresses other than the Proton IP? And if I had some forwarded ports would this make the port forwarding more secure? Hope that makes sense. :-)

Hi I'm not able to open portforward! My vpn server have dynamic port..I create the script nat-start and assign transmission on 192.168.1.10 #!/bin/sh iptables -I FORWARD -i br0 -o tun11 -j ACCEPT iptables -I FORWARD -i tun11 -o br0 -j ACCEPT iptables -I FORWARD -i br0 -o vlan1 -j DROP...