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Virtual private network; a network that connects remote sites or users via the Internet using virtual connections so that devices can communicate as if they were on a private network.

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HyperV Ubuntu Server with Hestia/CloudPanel development server?

I use Window 10 as Host. VM is Ubuntu Server. I want to use either Hestia or Cloudpanel. The problem: After installation I can login from the Windows 10 host via browser with hostname:8443 or 192.177....
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Allow cross-subnet/VLAN connections for client connected to VPN

I've re set-up my network and have started using VLANs to segregate my normal devices, homelab, and IoT devices. I have one device in the homelab VLAN that I want to be connected to a VPN at all times....
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VPN connected but routing tables unchanged

I'm trying to understand how does a VPN I'm using works. In this case it's nordvpn, but the question should be vendor neutral focusing on the underlying Linux mechanisms and tools to check what's up ...
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Creating a Network interface/adapter from an ip and port

Is it possible to create a Network interface/adapter from ip 127.0.0.1 and port 8580 in Windows? The goal is sharing the Internet that is on 127.0.0.1 with another interface. Many VPNs like Freegate ...
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Forward Wireguard traffic through Shadowsocks

I want to set up Wireguard obfuscation through Shadowsocks because WG stopped working due to ISPs in my country starting to block Wireguard and OpenVPN connections to foreign servers. I've tried to ...
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OPNSense OpenVPN Site to Site VPN unable to reach internal networks

I've been pulling my hair out setting up a site to site vpn with OPNSense. I followed the official guide with one exception, I'm using certificates. And I saw in a video that the interfaces created by ...
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Creating an IP alias for a device on another subnet behind a VPN

I set up a site-to-site VPN with IPsec between two routers. Router 1 (DLink DSR-250V2) controls the 11.11.11.0/24 subnet. Router 2 controls the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. The tunnel itself works fine. ...
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Why use /24 instead of /16 when creating new networks?

I'm experimenting with setting up VPNs with Wireguard. It seems to work well, but I noticed most of the examples online suggest using something like 10.0.0.0/24 as the ip range for your wireguard ...
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Best method for connecting user applications (which relly on SQL) over VPN

Two questions here: 1.  I'm trying to get some end user applications in a functional state at a remote office.  We have a decent site-to-site VPN and most programs work without issue (file explorer ...
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How to get through restrictions blocking OpenVPN?

I have recently set up a VPN server on my desktop at home in the hopes I can connect to it while at the university from my laptop. I have confirmed that I can connect easily on a mobile data hotspot, ...
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why wireguard PersistentKeepalive does not work?

I wireguard server and a single client have been setup on two VPSs to have a split tunnel in between, but every few hours, the client side connection stops and I have to restart the interface to ...
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Connect to VPN server on computer A from computer C with blocked connection

I wasn't sure what exactly to title this post, but here is my issue: I want to connect to the VPN server on computer A from computer C, but the connection is disallowed in the configuration I ...
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Is there a way to limit VPN resources on Windows?

I have corporate VPN profile at home PC I use to work. Is there a way to limit its profile area so I can interact with work resources by VPN, but any other resources I'd interact with the default ...
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Access local network from VPN while in local network

My local network contains the following setup: Windows RPI (WireGuard, Nginx) NAS When I tried connecting to the VPN from an outside network I could ssh into the local machines without an issue (...
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Connect to Windows Server 2012 VPN using L2TP randomly fails

I have multiple computers running Windows 11 Pro. All computers have the same problem. I'm trying to connect to a remote L2TP/IPSEC VPN with a pre-shared key. Client side: I have two vpn entries. One ...
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Issue with passing OpenVPN connection from Raspberry Pi device to only one particular device in subnet

I'm trying to figure out, how to pass OpenVPN connection to device from Raspberry Pi There is openVPN connection set up on Raspberry Pi. Also pi-hole is set up for the whole network via main gateway (...
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Using the Android phone VPN on my PC

Here is what I am trying to accomplish. I want to connect to a VPN service on my Android phone. Then, I want to be able to use that VPN service on my PC. I have tried using the Hotspot tethering ...
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Mikrotik PPTP VPN - Adding automatically routes - safer alternatives

We have 5 Mikrotik routers connected with PPTP VPN. One is the server and the other 4 are clients. All of them have RouterOS v6.46.3 (stable). Every time one PPTP breaks and reconnects I have to go to ...
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Issue running wireguard (wg-quick) on Ubuntu

I'm trying to run wireguard on a VPS running Ubuntu. My config works find on MacOS using the wireguard GUI. but when I run it on the VPS using wg-quick I get the following output, the SSH connection ...
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Wireguard queries showing up in PiHole, but no return packets are recieved by the client

I've got a docker bridge network with Wireguard and PiHole containers running within. I've forwarded all necessary ports, and using 192.168.1.208 (My server ip) as my DNS in the router works great on ...
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Using modem as home network traffic input and raspberry pi 5 as output

So my family and I love using a VPN for all sorts of things, and we want all of our traffic to be routed through one (surfshark). Because we don't live in a city, our home internet system has been at ...
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What is "ForceSecureCompartment" is rasdial/rasphone?

I'm editing the configuration of a VPN manually on Windows 11 by editing "rasphone.pbk", and I noticed there is a config ForceSecureCompartment=0. Just out of curiosity, can anyone explain ...
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VPN Traffic Flow

Networking amateur here. I have a Fortinet VPN client installed which I use to connect to the office network. The client also installed a virtual network adapter which I understand is the interface ...
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Accessing internal service remotely while connected to Cloudflare WARP

I'm living in a place with heavy censorship ongoing including YouTube and Twitter. What I'm trying to achieve is: Setup a SNI proxy server which with help of a self-hosted DNS server will redirect my ...
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Understanding packet routing when using Wireguard/Tailscale and the BitTorrent Protocol

I have a local machine on a VPN network with private IP A , and a VPS with private IP B which acts as an exit node, i.e. all traffic in the local machine is supposedly being routed from the local ...
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Running vpn on access point

just a question I need help with. Long story short, I have 4gee router as no other Internet available in my area. Our son plays xbox and has a wired access point in his room but xbox doesnt like cgnat ...
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Why I can’t access to internet with this vpn setup?

I try to setup a vpn between 2 networks over internet following this link https://openvpn.net/community-resources/how-to/ On my server openvpn runs port 1194 transfered interface ; inet 10.9.8.1 peer ...
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Shrew Configuration to Allow all traffic over the VPN connection

I want to route all the traffic through my VPN connection, i have already tried with the Policies section without success, https://www.whatismyip.com/ is still detecting my ip as i were not connected ...
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Windows 11 - Resetting network configuration after using VPN software

I have used a VPN client recently, and after using it I am unable to play a game because it crashes when connecting to the game servers. One of the things I'm trying to debug is any changes the VPN ...
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Troubleshooting problems with Viscosity and DNS requests

I'm using Viscosity 1.10.8 on macOS 14.2.1. A friend of mine has just sent to me the following OpenVPN configuration file for my client: client dev tun remote <MY FRIEND'S IP> 1194 tcp tun-mtu ...
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Dedicated Ip Address using vpn connection

I am a newbie in Network connections and I developing an application that needs to connect to a Server "Y", the connection is allowed just for an specific IP through the firewall, this IP ...
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What about Google One VPN would cause Box Drive on Windows 10 to display an Excel spreadsheet with data as a blank sheet?

A couple of times recently, a Microsoft 360 Excel spreadsheet, which had been saved to a folder on Box Drive and left open on my desktop overnight, was no longer on the desktop in the morning. There ...
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Configuring WireGuard on Linux for WebRTC Leak Testing

I'm trying to make wireguard work with a special config, to test Browsers for WebRTC Leaks. With this said I need a config, that allows allows traffic outside of the tunnel. In Windows I could ...
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Does wireguard route all traffic to the VPN server or just specific IP addreses?

I has setup wireguard so I can access my NAS remotely on top of OpenMediaVault with the wireguard plugin I was wondering does wireguard route all traffic to the VPN server or just specific IP ...
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How to chain in cascade two VPNs on macOS?

Given the following VPNs: a WireGuard VPN I've created with a Fritz!Box a Cisco IPSec VPN I'd like to know if it's possible to connect to the Cisco VPN using the IP obtained via the WireGuard VPN. ...
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slow vpn tunnels speed on high speed network

I have some VMs with minimum network speed of 1G I need to connect each VM via a split tunnel. While the raw speed between VMs are 1G but over the tunnels , the speed is down to 10% of the max speed (...
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Win10 "Connection properties" changes from "Certificate" to "Smart card" when I try to connect to IKEv2 VPN server

I try to connect to Debian Strong Swan VPN server from Windows 10. I create CA certificate on Debian server and import the root certificate to Windows "Trusted Root Certification Authorities&...
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redirect to PFsense IPsec tunnel endpoit which has public IP

I have got a working IPsec connection where the Remote subnet has a non internet IP address (105.x.y.z/25). Trying to access this address of course leads to the public internet. How can I redirect all ...
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Wireguard VPN pfSense -> Speedport router: No connection

I have a network A with the subnet 192.168.1.1/24, connected to a Telekom Speedport Smart 3, and a network B with the subnet 10.168.1.1/24, connected to an SG-1100 with pfSense (behind a cable modem). ...
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routing traffic to remote webserver within VPN, via reverse proxy

What I'm trying to achieve, is posted in below picture: the different PI's each host a webserver, and are connected with a dongle to the 4G network (in remote areas). Since they have shared IP's on ...
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Can I set up a VPN server without router access?

I want to be able to set up a Windows 10 PC so that I can connect to the internet remotely as if from the IP address of the PC. I do not have access to the router password (of the modem/router ...
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connecting between two subnets via VPN

I am trying to use mount -t cifs command from my computer to my raspberry pi when i am on the same network there are no issues ssh into the device mount from my computer to the rpi all good The ...
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Home Assistant OS + Wireguard Client addon = IP Masquerading not working correctly

I installed addon wireguard-client on my Home Assistant OS on Raspberry Pi IP masquerading is not working; I cannot access other devices on my local area network traceroute stops at 10.10.1.2 instead ...
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How to setup VPN connection from android 13/14 native VPN client to mikrotik routerOS for testing mobile app with backend behind a private network?

I want to test my mobile app on Android 13 with test backend located in private network. Therefore I need to access this network via VPN tunnel. Since L2TP/PPTP VPN connections are not supported on ...
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SSH Connection Timed Out - TryHackMe Linux Walkthrough

I am a beginner trying to learn Linux from TryHackMe's Linux Fundamentals. I ran out of time on the attack box and have been trying to connect to my active machine using a VPN over OpenVPN Connect. ...
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WSL - how to connect to VcXserv/Xming when VPN is running in the hosted OS?

For work for a vendor, I need to access a few sites via their VPN. Due to the security, however, their VPN blocks basically all other network traffic. For that, I decided to try the WSL/Linux ...
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Can remote in over IPv6 but not IPv4 using OpenVPN?

We are using an Asus router with built in openVPN to remotely connect to the local network on which a windows machine runs. We then use Microsoft Remote Desktop to facilitate the connection of remote ...
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Is it possible to have Brave's VPN not affect the whole computer on Windows 10?

When I turn on the VPN in Brave it seems to affect the whole computer, including other browsers. Is it possible to make it only affect Brave? I don't want Chrome to go through the same VPN. Actually, ...
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How to disconnect from AnyConnect VPN without losing the whole internet connection and having to reboot?

I'm using Cisco Secure Client and I use AnyConnect in it in order to connect to a VPN. It works totally okay but the problem shows up a couple of moments after I disconnect the VPN I lose my internet ...
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How to start WireGuard client without sudo privileges?

I am desperately trying to set up a "sudoless" way to start a WireGuard tunnel. The user has no elevated rights on Debian 12 Bookworm. The user needs a simple way to get access to a terminal ...
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