Racking my and ChatGPT's brain and still can't work out why my phone isn't being detected by PiVPN

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You’ve only gone and done it!! So much for me listening to chat gpt.
Thank you

Now to work out how exactly it’s working.

Edit: Actually I don’t think it is working. I think I accidentally left my WiFi on when testing the vpn

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No I haven’t yet. I gave up last night and haven’t tried again today

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Well I googled. What’s my ip, and it was the same address.

Still can’t get it working even after following the guide of wireguard for dummies. I’m starting to wonder whether my router doesn’t like it. I have set up port forwarding on it.

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I think you’ll have to create a new thread. I use Tailscale now anyway. Works much better for my use case.

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well, you didn’t really answer my question

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okay, do you mind helping me find out how to be sure then?

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is your IP like: 100.x.x.x?

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No, it’s 46.xx.xx.xx

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looks fine then.
I would get rid of preshared key for now for debugging purposes. You can add it later once you get a tunnel going.
Triple check your keys.
What is the output of sudo wg?

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I setup the client with a qr code so I would hope the keys are correct

interface: wg0

public key: vwPlwnTSS0Q2EfzVEDMVvR1bDd3mur+irAZxuxy1aVk=

private key: (hidden)

listening port: 51820

peer: AOa4aJaHSU3L8lflAWrtRNyrUxyOKNCYVtehuO8oFGw=

preshared key: (hidden)

allowed ips: 10.180.160.2/32

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maybe try to set up a VPN connection on your lan. Ditch your DDNS provider, hardcode private ip address of your server for testing purposes. If you still can’t get a connection you will at least know where there ISN’T a problem

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I found a fault in my setup, I stupidly forgot to change the port forwarding IP on my router. I have corrected that now and have this under pivpn -c

Name Remote IP Virtual IP Bytes Received Bytes Sent Last Seen

alexphone ** . ** . ** . ***:51820 10.180.160.215KiB 8.8KiB (not yet)

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Okay, now it seems to be working. Thanks for all the help guys. I hadn’t noticed that I was pointing to the wrong ip in my router settings because it just said the hostname which was pivpn and I assumed it was just a comment.

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glad you got it working

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Thank you so much for sticking with me