VPN connects but no transfer after Bullseye

Troubleshooting
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no, my port forwarding was set statically to the same IP address. again, all my other services would function fine it’s just the VPN networks would not let me do anything other than make a connection. LAN and WAN connections couldn’t be made after connection

22

but it is working now?

Btw: it is not important if the client show connected. Because this will the client always do, even if not true. Important is the server side where you need to see a latest handshake message while running wg command. Something like this

root@DietPiProd:~# wg
interface: wg0
  public key: xxx
  private key: (hidden)
  listening port: 51820

peer: xxx
  endpoint: x.x.x.x:44576
  allowed ips: 10.9.0.7/32
  latest handshake: 1 day, 18 hours, 26 minutes, 10 seconds ago
  transfer: 212.21 MiB received, 2.16 GiB sent

peer: xxxx
  allowed ips: 10.9.0.2/32
23

It is working now. I know with wireguard yes it can show connected when it’s not but is it the same with openvpn? My issue was happening with both. I will continue to monitor it.

24

Sorry I don’t use OpenVPN. So I’m didn’t have any experience with it.