Hi all, I am trying to control the outbound traffic of some TrueNAS Apps by routing them through a different gateway than the TrueNAS default. Specifically, I want to isolate my *ARR apps on a dedicated VLAN that is routed to a VPN gateway on pfSense. Through my research, I found that TrueNAS does …

Nope not possible, been requested multiple times but afaik still not implemented, you could add a vpn sidecar to your arr stacks and download client.

Sad… It would be so nice to be able to do that

If you’re interested here’s a guide on how to run apps through a vpn: [image] Guide: How to install qbittorrent (or any app) with vpn on Truenas Electric Eel TrueNAS General I wanted to posted my guide on how to use any app including qbittorrent with a VPN in t…

Guide: How to install qbittorrent (or any app) with vpn on Truenas Electric Eel posted my guide on how to use any app including qbittorrent with a VPN in the new Electric Eel version. Install the dockge app from Truenas. Compose an image for the VPN, use this docker compose.yaml code and change …

Just use policy routing on a pfSense box, you can even run that in virtual machine (a real PCI Network card is required to be passed through)

My answer was based on this thread from the past and for vanilla truenas apps it is still not possible without converting them to custom apps and adding custom macvlans or deploying a custom yaml app… [image] Apps and Custom Routing 25.04 Apps and Virtualization …

I ended up migrating to MACVLAN network as it was easier to ensure each container had their own IP and followed the proper routing paths for better insights at a firewall level.

This is what I’m testing right now. Look like the MACVLAN way allow the traffic to follow my pfsense routing rules while regular bridge container configuration sometimes endup using the default Truenas gateway configuration. I will do more testing, I’m doing these test with the “experimental” Conta…

Is it possible to get Truenas Apps outbound traffic going to another gateway that the Truenas default?

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LarsR October 24, 2026, 1:29pm 4

If you’re interested here’s a guide on how to run apps through a vpn:

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Is it possible to get Truenas Apps outbound traffic going to another gateway that the Truenas default?

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