I was pleasantly surprised to see how well my torrent client (Tixati) performed without any inbound connectivity. I also describe myself as, as you so well put it, without core competency in networking. I found your post searching easier instructions for port forwarding for bittorrent from a PIA VPN (and nope'd right out of that idea after trying the scripting needed). So yesterday I installed pfSense 2.1 and followed the same setup as you described in your links. The observed behavior confuses me and makes me wonder whether the VPN connection is somehow bypassed in a BitTorrent siralos: I have tried using the various diagnostic utilities of pfSense to understand what is going on, but to no avail. As far as I understand, this should not be possible. To my surprise, my BitTorrent client constantly uploads at very high speed in spite of the fact, that the BitTorrent client does not know the port forwarded by PIA and nothing port forwarding specific has been configured in pfSense 2.1. The problem is that I have tried downloading a well seeded and well leeched legal torrent for testing purposes. My pfSense 2.1 firewall, configured according to the guides above, is wide open by the way. You need to set up pfSense with a script to forward this port through the firewall and I have not done so, since this is a complicated and time consuming task. So far, all seems good.Īccording to most online sources, however, PIA only allows the individual user to have forwarded one incomming port. I have also tried downloading one of those special legal "what is my IP"-torrents, more specifically the one from TorGuard, and also it shows my external IP as the IP address of the specific PIA VPN gateway that I am using - and not an external IP of my actual ISP. I have configured PfSense 2.1 according to the above mentioned guides and now, when I browse the internet and use diverse "what is my IP"-sites, my external IP shows as the IP of the specific PIA VPN gateway that I am using. In order to do so, I have followed the following guides and piecemeal advices found using Google: I have configured pfSense as an OpenVPN client for the VPN provider PIA (or Private Internet Access). I have installed pfSense 2 on a VM, then upgraded to pfSense 2.1. Networking has never been my core competence. The concern that I have, which gives me reason to post this topic, is whether outgoing trafic gets routed over the VPN connection when PfSense 2.1 is used as an OpenVPN client.
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