Hi All
I am having issues reaching machines in my lan from outside my network once i enabled a vpn client on my router.
Router: RT-AC88u
Firmware: Merlin 384.9
Before i enabled the vpn client the setup was working fine. I have wireguard running on a raspberry pi 3 and i was forwarding the udp port. I would connect to it and then would have access to my local network. I also had a similar setup using an openvpn server running on the router itself.
I then followed the mullvad vpn guide and got the client setup. Client came up fine and all my lan devices were now going through the VPN.
However once this was setup i was no longer able to access my lan machine as i was before. IP i was using to connect to wireguard/openvpn server was the ISP IP and not the VPN IP. Reason i used ISP IP is that i could not get port forwarding via vpn to work for wireguard/vpn server. I confirmed that port forwarding via the vpn is working in general as other services were able to use the forwarded ports.
So i am curious am i running into issues because i am trying to access using the ISP IP vs VPN IP or do i need additional steps.
I have strict policy rules setup in vpn client with
192.168.1.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0 -> VPN
192.168.1.1 -> 0.0.0.0 -> WAN: Interesting issue here as well. Once VPN client was up i was not able to issue a ping command to any site while on the router. Did not matter if i had this rule or not.
I am novice in networking in general and a new user of merlin. I switched because i wanted better dns controls to get clients to use pihole which is working great
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I am having issues reaching machines in my lan from outside my network once i enabled a vpn client on my router.
Router: RT-AC88u
Firmware: Merlin 384.9
Before i enabled the vpn client the setup was working fine. I have wireguard running on a raspberry pi 3 and i was forwarding the udp port. I would connect to it and then would have access to my local network. I also had a similar setup using an openvpn server running on the router itself.
I then followed the mullvad vpn guide and got the client setup. Client came up fine and all my lan devices were now going through the VPN.
However once this was setup i was no longer able to access my lan machine as i was before. IP i was using to connect to wireguard/openvpn server was the ISP IP and not the VPN IP. Reason i used ISP IP is that i could not get port forwarding via vpn to work for wireguard/vpn server. I confirmed that port forwarding via the vpn is working in general as other services were able to use the forwarded ports.
So i am curious am i running into issues because i am trying to access using the ISP IP vs VPN IP or do i need additional steps.
I have strict policy rules setup in vpn client with
192.168.1.0/24 -> 0.0.0.0 -> VPN
192.168.1.1 -> 0.0.0.0 -> WAN: Interesting issue here as well. Once VPN client was up i was not able to issue a ping command to any site while on the router. Did not matter if i had this rule or not.
I am novice in networking in general and a new user of merlin. I switched because i wanted better dns controls to get clients to use pihole which is working great
