Bdking158Jun 16, 2023

I can't seem to SSH into my server over VPN and can't figure out why.

Using JuiceSSH on my phone, I'm able to connect to my device without any problems when I'm on my home Wi-Fi. However, when off WiFi and connected to my VPN, the server doesn't connect. I'm still able to access the services it's running, but can't SSH into the server itself.

https://kbin.social/m/selfhosted@lemmy.world/t/35440

I can't seem to SSH into my server over VPN and can't figure out why. - selfhosted - kbin.social

Using JuiceSSH on my phone, I'm able to connect to my device without any problems when I'm on my home Wi-Fi. However, when off WiFi and connected to my VPN, the server doesn't connect. I'm still able to access the services it's running, but can't SSH into the server itself.

Show threadNotorious

It's been a while since I've used OpenVPN, but if I remember correctly when I had this issue I had to change "dev tun" to "dev tap". Ultimately the problem was that OpenVPN was assigning an ip on an unrouted subnet. I could access the internet, but not local devices.

Personally I switched to Wireguard. It's just so much easier to configure and add/manage devices. OpenVPN is way more powerful and configurable than I need.

Jun 16, 2023 at 3:43pmWeb
Show threadBdking158Jun 16, 2023
I'm not especially attached to OpenVPN, it's just always worked for me to this point and is built into the router firmware. So I haven't needed to change