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/wi…

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Can’t connect to any tracker, getting : “Host not found (non-authoritative)” despite having both Successfully listening on IP. and UPnP/NAT-PMP port mapping succeeded. I don’t know if it is related, but the conf file given by my vpn provided had a DNS = 10.2.0.1 line. I tried both leaving it as if,…

Yes, the DNS option will cause errors here. Try to remove it and reboot the NAS.

Hi, I tried to build a VPN but keep failing with the following message: [#] ip link add wg0 type wireguard [#] wg setconf wg0 /dev/fd/63 [#] ip -4 address add 10.2.0.2/32 dev wg0 [#] ip link set mtu 1420 up dev wg0 [#] resolvconf -a wg0 -m 0 -x [#] ip -4 route add 10.2.0.1/32 dev wg0 table 1…

I did this with the wireguard settings from ProtonVPN. And it seems to be working fine, however, i’m running adguard on truenas as well and even if I go to what is my ip, it sees my normal ip, but some websites i need for work are saying that I’m behind a vpn and wont load. Is there a way to check t…

I just posted my guide to run any app with VPN (openvpn) on TrueNas Electric Eel: How to install qbittorrent (or any app) with vpn on Truenas Electric Eel

The WireGuard configuration you provided was very helpful, thank you!

I dont think it is working for me, qBittorrent is still detecting my external IP adress. All steps were done correctly, i do believe. I got the succesfully listening on IP message. And all the WG commands returned correctly.

[image] Bishop: I’m using Mullvad’s killswitch, is that a problem? Clearly the error is due to the iptables commands that you have added. [image] Bishop: –mark $(wg show wg0 fwmark) That won’t work here since we are not using fwmark (because of the Table option). [image] Bishop: A…

[image] bmartin3k: I did this with the wireguard settings from ProtonVPN. And it seems to be working fine, however, i’m running adguard on truenas as well and even if I go to what is my ip, it sees my normal ip, but some websites i need for work are saying that I’m behind a vpn and wont load. Is…

WOW, i been scratching my head for months, I know so little about linux, Truenas, openwrt but manage to get an fantastic media system running with all the arrs and a torrent to boot. had to create my Wireguard VPN on my router and tunnel the entire server through it. tried using PBR to just route t…

Guide: qBittorrent App with Wireguard VPN

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