I am following the linked guide for protonvpn to try to get soulseek to work and the soulseek port test tool keeps on saying the port is closed. However when I run natpmpc it seems to be successful - anyone have ideas how to get it up and running?

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[–] das@lemellem.dasonic.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

I haven't used ProtonVPN, but for PIA the port never showed as open until traffic was going through it.

Once I put the port into qbittorrent and downloaded for a couple of minutes, the port then showed as open for port test tools.

[–] please_lemmy_out@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Are you using OpenVPN or Wireguard configs?

For Wireguard I had to slightly modify the commands to open a port to:

natpmpc -g 10.2.0.1 -a 0 0 tcp 60

natpmpc -g 10.2.0.1 -a 0 0 udp 60

while true ; do date ; natpmpc -g 10.2.0.1 -a 0 0 tcp 60 && natpmpc -g 10.2.0.1 -a 0 0 udp 60 || { echo -e "ERROR with natpmpc command \a" ; break ; } ; sleep 45 ; done

[–] string_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Huh I am using openvpn but that's good to know!

[–] AsepticFuturisticFox@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

You must check that the client you're using is trying to use the port that ProtonVPN actually forwards