I finally got the vpn working, but I'm having trouble with bittorrent.  
So far I've tried Deluge. The next time I have time to mess with it, I 
can try another bittorrent client.  Michael, which one do you use?


On 09/18/2018 11:35 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
> How are you configuring the openvpn connection?  Using PIA vpn, they 
> give you an openvpn file to connect with, or at least did last I set 
> it up, and otherwise should just need the package dependencies 
> installed with openvpn.
>
> I'd say launch openvpn via the cli in debug to see what errors it's 
> giving with the ovpn file.
>
> Bridge or nat should be irrelevant, I've run mine both ways.  You 
> should only need ports 1194 out to your VPN provider, you don't need 
> to port forward one back, and actually recommend you do NOT unless 
> you're wanting an openvpn server yourself to connect back to.  Mine 
> works fine out via NAT.
>
> -mb
>
> On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:57 PM Jim <jim.nantz15@comcast.net 
> <mailto:jim.nantz15@comcast.net>> wrote:
>
>     I decided to try a virtual machine for bittorrent.  The host machine
>     runs kubuntu 14.04 with 4GB RAM. I've installed virtualbox
>     5.2.18.  The
>     virtual machine is running lubuntu 18 and has 1GB RAM.  The
>     problem is
>     with the vpn.  I can't get openvpn or pptp to work.  I configured
>     them
>     using the same instructions I did on the host machine.  When I try to
>     start a VPN connction(openvpn or pptp)  on the guest machine, the
>     icon
>     appears to show it's trying to connect, then it just stops without
>     offering any error message.  In  Virtualbox's settings for the guest
>     machine under network, I chose attached to NAT.
>
>     Any ideas what I should do different?
>
>     thanks
>