OpenVPN to server, then ExpressVPN to the outside? (lemmy.one)

submitted 11 months ago by MasterBuilder@lemmy.one to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I use openvpn to connect to my server at home. When I surf the Internet or any of my apps on my phone go to the Internet while I'm on the VPN it's going out to the internet from my server.

Does anybody know a way to set it up so that whatever goes out from that server goes through expressvpn? I can't seem to get it to work on the router because openvpn then cannot connect to my server.

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[-] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 3 points 11 months ago

No reason it shouldn't work if the VPN connection is two separate servers, one for the 'server' vs the 'client' connection.

[-] Boring@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Need more information.. This could be many issues.

Networkchuck has a good video on setting up a VPN connection to Nord on a router, will probably work with Express

Link: https://piped.video/watch?v=jlHWnKVpygw

On the not being able to connect to your server via VPN while having a outgoing VPN connection at the router level.. That could be a number of different things.. Weird topology, conflicting ports, misconfigured VPN, etc. So we need more info to help out there.

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