Anybody have any idea of how to port forward whilst using the "privateinternetaccess" VPN with a netgear router.
Why is there a router involved? *stare* o.o
Anyway. I"m assuming it isn't involved and you're using PIA's custom vpn client for windows. If your configuration is different (vpn on router, openvpn gui vpn client, linux involved) then port forwarding while using a vpn is not supported.
From PIA's website:
"Enable port forwarding in the application by entering the Advanced area, enabling port forwarding and selecting one of the following gateways:
Netherlands, Switzerland, CA North York, CA Toronto, Romania, Sweden, France, Germany
After enabling port forwarding and re-connecting to one of the above gateways, please hover your mouse over the System Tray or Menu Bar icon to reveal the tooltip which will display the port number. You can then enter this port into your software.
Port Forwarding reduces privacy. For maximum privacy, please keep port forwarding disabled."
For clarity: when using port forwarding in combination with VPN software on a client, the port forwarding configuration of your netgear router does not matter because application traffic is redirected to the vpn server. It's that vpn server that needs to accept incoming connections, forward that traffic to your pc, which can then forward the traffic to the correct application. Router should not be involved. hence: *stare* o.o
Well that's noob shxz for you, the main question was how can I port forward using both UDP and TCP? that brilliant copy and paste feature that you used only allows me to do either UDP or TCP, that's why I'm asking if there is any other way of port forwarding both UDP and TCP?
The PIA windows client looks like it only supports 1 port, either udp or tcp forwarded per instance and only certain remote ports. There is prolly a way to progromatically forward multiple ports (no fundamental reason why not) but that's a question for PIA support at this point. Asks them.
"Oh get a VPN all your traffic will be safe" I'm sorry but using a default port (80) is so insecure
Please take a networking course at your local college o.o...