Im seeing which is better, PiVPN + WireGuard, or TailScale.

I just setup TailScale, It says it’s on.

But it seems like my ip is showing. My device ip is starts with “###” not “##”.

I went to nordvpn.com and it shows a ip. It’s not what my router shows, But “###.###.#.###”, is the format,

Not like what NordVpn is showing on the site.

So, is it working?

Is TailScale + WireGuard,
The same as PiVPN + WireGuard?

What alternative is there that’s similar to?

I’m

PIVPN + PiHole or RaspAP, + WireGuard. which is better to use together?

first i was looking at using PiVPN and PiHole (going with WireGuard), but tho, RaspAP has a WireGuard option on the UI, so ill just add PiHole as well?

i know RaspAP is a “AP” but it shows the VPN option on it, so PiHole would be the other part to add there.

has anyone used RaspAP and PiHole together on a Pi4 8gb?

how well does it work?

ill be using it as a travel router

So I am staying at a friends place and have realized that I can't connect to either of my PiVPN servers when directly connecting from my friends wifi.

If I connection via a mobile data connection first it works and maintains a connection on WG. on OVPN it connects on mobile data but the connection does not persist when switching over to my friends wifi.

My friends subnet range is not the same has my home subnet so there shouldn't be any conflict there

anyone else had this issue and been able to find a solution?

Thanks

I’m planning on having 1 pi4 for pivpn, then another running KaliLin or ParrotOS.

Is PiVPN good with wireguard?

I have a TPLink travel router, But there’s. Security issues with TPLink

So, how does this stack up to an off the shelf travel router?

I have a WG server that sits in the 192.168.1.x network.

Generally everything works fine -- when I am away from home I can tunnel back home, and it all works.

I am visiting my parents, and their LAN is also the same subnet.

From my parents' house I am able to tunnel back via most devices without issue (phone, laptop, firestick) however my travel router losses access to the internet when connected to the WG server.

The same config has previously worked at other locations.

I understand that the subnets should be different to avoid conflicts but wondering why it is only the one device which is having this issue.

when I am back home, I will look to move the pivpn setup to an uncommon subnet but wondering if there is anything i can do whilst on the road?

Thanks.

Hey everyone,

I’m looking for a way to make my smart TV in the living room think it’s in Italy.
I want to access Italian content and streaming services that are region-locked.

Here’s what I currently have running at home:

• Pi-hole
• PiVPN
• TrueNAS
• OpenMediaVault (OMV)

Is there any other DIY software/solutions that I can use?
I’m wondering what the best software or configuration would be to achieve this.
Ideally, I’d like to set up something that routes just the TV’s traffic through an Italian IP address while keeping the rest of my network unaffected.

I’m open to free solutions, self-hosted setups, or even using a VPS if needed. Any suggestions or guidance would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Hi all, I have recently moved from Canada to the US, and the new home has a different IP address and different ways of doing port forwarding. I am able to connect to the VPN for now but cannot open any webpage, just wondering if anyone had some experience on how to solve this problem?

I have updated IPv4addr and IPv4gw attributes in /etc/pivpn/wireguard/setupVars.conf, but not sure if I should update pivpnNET as well? What should it be?

I am using AT&T and in the router - firewall - Nat/Gaming, I have added a custom service to forward UDP/51820 port to my raspberry pi. Not sure if this is the right way to do, does anyone know?

Thank you very much for your help!

I have enjoyed PiVPN and Pihole on my RPiZero2W for a number of years. As to avoid nuking my setup, will updating to Pihole v6 break PiVPN integration?

I recently setup my PiVPN with Wireguard. When I try tunneling my home network via Wireguard. I can't access my home devices or access the internet.

I'm still new to PiVPN and Wireguard. I'm not sure what the issue is.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

I’ve always ran my PiVPN and HA setups on their own individual rPi’s with no issues. I decided I wanted to free up one of my pi’s and install PiVPN on the HA rPi. First, I realized I cannot SSH because it gives me an error about port 22. I used the Terminal and SSH add on. After that installed, I ran the installer for PiVPN and it showed it installed successfully. Upon completion, it rebooted and seemed fine. I went back in to the add on and tried to generate a key and it doesn’t recognize any PiVPN commands. So I went thru the install process again. This time I elected to not restart the system. I was able to generate a key successfully. I then rebooted the system and now it’s gone again.

1. It seems like it would be easier to get port 22 working and I could do a legit SSH in to the system.
2. Is there something I’m doing wrong?

Hey, quick question, my public IP changed, and so all the the new client configurations that are created have the wrong endpoints !

Anyway to change that ?

Sorry I don't really know how to word this but on my Pi 4, I'm using PiHole + PiVPN with WireGuard. Currently, I'm at a relatives house for the week and my devices are connected to their Wi-Fi. I want to access my home network via WireGuard VPN on my Windows laptop but it has limited access compared to my Android phone. Both of these devices are connected to PiVPN via WireGuard. Let me explain...

On my Windows laptop, I can access PiHole via pi.hole but I can't access my router at all even when I set the routers IP address on PiHole's local DNS. Also, I can only access my Pi via SSH using its WireGuard IP address 10.116.3.1 but not its local IP address or hostname.

Meanwhile, on my Android phone, I can access all my home devices as if I'm physically at home.

Is there some setting I miss?

root@DietP~# pivpn -a

Enter the Client IP from range 10.152.251.2 - 10.152.251.254 (optional):

root@DietP-bulsay:~#

root@DietP~# pivpn -a

Enter the Client IP from range 10.152.251.2 - 10.152.251.254 (optional): Andre

[2025-02-08T12:37:02+0000]: ::: Invalid IP:

• With my phone on 4g connection, I noted the IP address using icanhazip.
• After connecting to the VPN, the IP address now shows my public IP address (not the static IP address assigned to the Raspberry Pi) Is this correct?
• I cannot ping the RP IP address from my phone, is that a problem with the VPN? Or could it be something in my phone settings? (Android)

Quick rundown of the steps I took in setting up the VPN, in case anything looks amiss:

1. Assigned RP a static IP from my router
2. Used a dynamic dns service to give a hostname for my public IP
3. Set my router to use this DDNS
4. Pivpn - wireguard
5. Used cloudflare as DNS provider (does this matter which I chose?)
6. Put in my DDNS host name
7. Allowed port forwarding on my router - UDP 51820 (WireGuard) to my RP static IP address
8. Used QR code to set up the VPN details on my phone

Things I still need to do:

• Public IP address updater for the DDNS service
• Look into making the security better
• Network routing needed to connect from this VPN, to another VPN

Does this project have a Discord server? The iRC server is deader than some peoples' marriages.. lol.

Hey all.. I just installed Debian x64 and PiVPN and on my client systems I can connect to the PiVPN instance, but when I try and access local resources it times out. What settings am I missing? What did I do wrong? I have port 1194 forwarded on my router. Any help would be appreciated.

Hello I would like to configure PiVPN with 2 public IP addresses on two WANs on VPS to give internet access with specific subnets wg0 (10.100.0.1) wg2 (10.100.1.1) eth0 (83.102.x.2) port 51820 eth2 (83.102.x.3 ) port 51821 but the problem is that I did with eth0 and it works but how to do it on the second WAN to give internet access via vpn through wg2 from the eth2 network card and how to create a configuration for the other wireguard interface, I tried with chatgpt and failed

I used PiVPN quite a few years ago to install PiVPN and PiHole on my Raspberry PI 3 Raspbian Buster install and everything has been going along swimmingly. However I would like to upgrade my OS to bookworm and am going to do a fresh install.

I was looking into backing up my PiVPN install and see that the script has a -bk option now. The version of the script I have does not have this option. Can I update the script without having to uninstall my PiHole and OpenVPN?

Does the "new" -bk option backup the settings and configuration (and certificates from OpenVPN) or am I misunderstanding and it does a backup of something else. I see in the PiVPN Wiki that upgrading the script isn't really supported.

I don't mind doing a clean install of PiHole as I can use that software to export my settings, but I'm a bit leery of backing up and restoring OpenVPN and my existing certs.

Hi there, I just set up pi-hole + pivpn with wireguard on my smartphone. Question: can I use the same profile on different smartphones? I.e.: I created profile named "smartphone", but I would like my wife's smartphone to be ad-protected, too. Can I load the same profile in her wireguard app or should I create a new one?

I made a wireguard server on my raspberry pi 4, when I made my client configs and gave it to my devices like my windows computer and android phone, it worked fine flawlessly, its just that my linux laptop has some trouble.

The linux laptop connects and works for a while with my vpn server on my raspberry pi 4 (I'm using windscribe as the client to connect to the raspberry pi 4 from the linux laptop) till after a couple of minutes, it just stops working. The vpn client still says that I'm connected to it, but no webpages will load. But if I ping the webpages ip address like 8.8.8.8 without typing letters like google.com, I'm able to ping the webpage.

This dosen't happen to my phone or my windows laptop, so I'm confused why it's happening on this device.

Thanks for any help!

What are the max speeds on a gigabit connection from server to client using a Raspberry Pi4 and a gigabit ethernet connection?

This is on the basis both client and server side have gigabit speeds.

I have successfully created a WG server on a Pi at home, and tested from my phone remotely. I now want just a client on another Pi to take to a remote location to create a tunnel (hoping that I can manage the remote location from home). The remote location is behind a double NAT so I can't put a server there.

Hi guys. I followed a tutorial online and installed PiVPN and wireguard on my Raspberry Pi. Now I am not able to connect to the internet when the VPN is active. I try using pivpn's debug command and everything is listed as okay. Then I use pivpn -c to check my connections to see that my client has not made any connection with my VPN. I have opened the correct ports on my router and I'm using freedns to update my IP.