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
>
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