This is a guide to setup the qBittorrent app with Bittorrent traffic routed through a Wireguard tunnel.
This is based on OpenVPN and qBittorrent without X server · qbittorrent/qBittorrent Wiki · GitHub
Step 1: Create the Wireguard configuration file
Connect to TrueNAS using SSH and create /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf with the following contents:
[Interface]
PrivateKey = (redacted)
Address = 10.2.0.2/32
Table = 1000
PostUp = ip -4 route change default via 10.2.0.1 table 1000
PostUp = ip -4 rule add priority 1 from 10.2.0.2 table 1000
PostDown = ip -4 rule del priority 1 from 10.2.0.2 table 1000
[Peer]
PublicKey = (redacted)
AllowedIPs = 10.2.0.1/32, 0.0.0.0/0
Endpoint = (redacted)
Adapt the keys, addresses and endpoint to your VPN provider.
The following lines allow to route only Bittorrent traffic through the VPN:
Table = 1000
PostUp = ip -4 rule add priority 1 from 10.2.0.2 table 1000
PostDown = ip -4 rule del priority 1 from 10.2.0.2 table 1000
The following lines allow to use NAT-PMP if your provider supports it:
PostUp = ip -4 route change default via 10.2.0.1 table 1000
AllowedIPs = 10.2.0.1/32
Step 2: Start the Wireguard interface
Execute sudo wg-quick up wg0
Verify that all is configured well:
admin@truenas ~ $ ip addr show dev wg0
6: wg0: <POINTOPOINT,NOARP,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1420 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/none
inet 10.2.0.2/32 scope global wg0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
admin@truenas ~ $ ip -4 route show table 1000
default via 10.2.0.1 dev wg0
10.2.0.1 dev wg0 scope link
admin@truenas ~ $ ip -4 rule show
0: from all lookup local
1: from 10.2.0.2 lookup 1000
32764: from 172.16.0.0/16 lookup kube-router
32765: from all lookup external_ip
32766: from all lookup main
32767: from all lookup default
Execute sudo systemctl enable wg-quick@wg0 to start the interface at boot.
Step 3: Install and configure qBittorrent
Install the qBittorrent app. In “Network Configuration”, check “Host network”.
Open the qBittorrent Web UI.
Navigate to Tools > Options, select the “Advanced” tab, and in “qBittorrent Section” set “Network interface” to “wg0”.
Navigate to View, check “Log”, then click the “Execution Log” tab.
You should see this:
Successfully listening on IP. IP: "10.2.0.2". Port: "TCP/xxxxx"
Successfully listening on IP. IP: "10.2.0.2". Port: "UDP/xxxxx"
and if your provider supports NAT-PMP:
UPnP/NAT-PMP port mapping succeeded. Message: "successfully mapped port using NAT-PMP. external port: TCP/yyyyy"
UPnP/NAT-PMP port mapping succeeded. Message: "successfully mapped port using NAT-PMP. external port: UDP/yyyyy"
Enjoy!